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Definition of Claps
1. v. t. Variant of Clasp
Definition of Claps
1. Noun. (plural of clap) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Claps
1. clap [v] - See also: clap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Claps
Literary usage of Claps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"The Senior Class began to recite President claps Ethics. I gave a Lect. on Ecc.
History. ... Senior Class finished President claps Ethics. No Lecture. . 15. ..."
2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"I never knew so many strangely loud claps of Thunder in my life together.
Neither do I remember to have known it so near, insomuch that we were very ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings,
And, till prepaid for longer night, Wares in its plumes the various light. ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1806)
"Such sodaine claps ne wit nor will can shun; For when the stoole is taken from
our feete, Full flat on floore the body falls in streete. TP ART. IV. ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"The eager dogs are cheer'd with claps aud The angry beast to his best chamber flies.
And (angled there) sits grimly ..."
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