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Definition of Clapt
1. clap [v] - See also: clap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapt
Literary usage of Clapt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Or, at best, if we examine well, it is the marching of that gouty Patient whom
his Doctors had clapt on a metal floor artificially heated to the ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... whereon addressing himself to the lord Melfort, king James ambassador at Rome,
to give a character of his loyalty, he was clapt up close prisoner. ..."
3. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes by William Hugh Logan, James Maidment (1869)
"The Spendthrift clapt into Limbo; 3. The Garb of Old Gaul; 4. The North Highland
Volunteers ; 5. I cannot love thee more. Entered according to order," circa ..."
4. The Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper, K. G.: Preserved at Melbourne Hall by John Coke, Thomas Coke, Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper Cowper, William Dashwood Fane (1888)
"... COKE MSS. followers, and clapt up, and it is thought by this their heads be
stricken off. For Germany the Protestant, party declines apace. ..."