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Definition of Clapper
1. Noun. Someone who applauds.
Generic synonyms: Extoller, Laudator, Lauder
Derivative terms: Applaud, Applaud, Clap, Clap
2. Noun. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
Generic synonyms: Organ, Articulator
Group relationships: Mouth, Oral Cavity, Oral Fissure, Rima Oris, Pharynx, Throat
Terms within: Gustatory Organ, Taste Bud, Tastebud
Derivative terms: Lingual, Lingual, Tongue, Tongue
3. Noun. Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side.
Definition of Clapper
1. n. A person who claps.
2. n. A rabbit burrow.
Definition of Clapper
1. Noun. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring. ¹
2. Noun. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clapper
1. one that claps [n -S] - See also: claps
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapper
Literary usage of Clapper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1921)
"At times of low pressure, this valve may interfere considerably with the service
due to the Muttering of the clapper in the ordinary valve. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Clapier, a clapper of conies', Cotgrave. A Dorset word for a rabbit-hole (EDD
... Cp. clapper, the lid of a beggar's clap-dish ; dudgeon was the name of a ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1870)
"A. THE clapper Rail, otherwise called the Salt-water Marsh Hen, is a sea-side
bird, inhabiting the marshes along our coast within reach of the tides, ..."
4. Small Motors, Transformers, Electromagnets: A Practical Presentation of by Hugh Montgomery Stoller, Frank Eugene Austin, Edwin Wilbur Seeger, American Technical Society (1920)
"clapper Type Electromagnet Characteristics. A modification of the horseshoe magnet
is the clapper type electromagnet, Fig. 22, which has characteristics ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"II, No. 6, October, 1906.— ARTHUR T. WAYNE, Honorary Curator Div. Birds, College
of Charleston Museum. Note on the clapper Rail in Maine. ..."
6. Direct-acting Steam Pumps by Frank Ferdinand Nickel (1915)
"clapper Valves.—For handling thick liquids, valves with large openings are ...
Leather-faced, clapper valve The seat may be made round and of standard ..."
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