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Definition of Afterclaps
1. afterclap [n] - See also: afterclap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afterclaps
Literary usage of Afterclaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by J[ohn] Drummond Robertson (1890)
"[E.] " For had he been a merchant, then perhaps Storms, thunderclaps, or fear of
afterclaps Had made him long ere this the food of worms. ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"There were no afterclaps. The slavery question involved was settled and put to
rest in the very terms of the Union between the two countries. ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"The good-wife that before had provided for afterclaps, had found out a privie
place between two ..."
4. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"What should wee thinke of signes? they are but haps, How may they then be signes
of afterclaps ? ..."
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