Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapnet
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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