Definition of Clapnet

1. a type of net [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapnet

clanswoman
clap on
clap skate
clap together
clap up
clapalong
clapalongs
clapboard
clapboarded
clapboarding
clapboards
clapdish
clapmatch
clapmatches
clapnet (current term)
clapnets
clapometer
clapometers
clapotage
clapped
clapped out
clapper
clapper board
clapper talk
clapper valve
clapperboard
clapperboards
clapperclaw
clapperclawed

Literary usage of Clapnet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1898)
"Now, here take breath and ask, — which bird o' the brace Decoyed the other into clapnet? Who Was fool, who knave? Neither and both, perchance. ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... is then made amongst them with the gun, the clapnet, and various other implements of destruction. As soon as it is ascertained in a town that the ..."

3. The Book of Psalms by Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (1903)
"7. The timorous defenceless bird is an apt emblem for weak helpless men. Cp. xt. i. By ' snare' (pach) is probably meant a kind of clapnet. ..."

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