Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapdish
Literary usage of Clapdish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"1 (Wise Woman). clapdish, a wooden dish for alms with a cover that shut with a
clapping noise, used by lepers and other mendicants. Massinger, Parl. of Love ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Four marks? no, sir, my twenty pounds that you have made fly high, and I am gone.
Matheo. Must I be fed with chippings ? y'are best get a 3*clapdish, ..."
3. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"That affects royalty, rising from a clapdish *; That rules so much more ...
The clapdish has here the same meaning with clack-dish in " Measure for Measure. ..."
4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"A cant term for a beggar, ingeniously derived by Mr. Collier from knocking the
clapdish (which beggars carried) with a knife or dudgeon. ..."
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