Definition of Clapt

1. Verb. (archaic) (past of clap) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clapt

1. clap [v] - See also: clap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapt

clapper talk
clapper valve
clapperboard
clapperboards
clapperclaw
clapperclawed
clapperclawing
clapperclaws
clapperless
clappers
clapping
clappingly
clappings
claps
clapshot
clapt (current term)
claptrap
claptraps
claque
claquer
claquers
claques
claqueur
claqueurs
clarabella
clarabellas
clarain
clarains
claraite
claree

Literary usage of Clapt

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

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Or, at best, if we examine well, it is the marching of that gouty Patient whom his Doctors had clapt on a metal floor artificially heated to the ..."

2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... whereon addressing himself to the lord Melfort, king James ambassador at Rome, to give a character of his loyalty, he was clapt up close prisoner. ..."

3. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes by William Hugh Logan, James Maidment (1869)
"The Spendthrift clapt into Limbo; 3. The Garb of Old Gaul; 4. The North Highland Volunteers ; 5. I cannot love thee more. Entered according to order," circa ..."

4. The Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper, K. G.: Preserved at Melbourne Hall by John Coke, Thomas Coke, Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper Cowper, William Dashwood Fane (1888)
"... COKE MSS. followers, and clapt up, and it is thought by this their heads be stricken off. For Germany the Protestant, party declines apace. ..."

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