clapper — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.

2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

   Примеры

   "Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully."

4. A clapstick (musical instrument).

5. A pounding block.

6. The chattering damsel of a mill.

7. A slapshot

8. The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

9. A person's tongue.

   Употребление

   • сленг

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […]

Глагол

1. To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell.

2. To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.

3. Of birds, to make such a noise by repeatedly striking the mandibles together.

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   [W]hile he was away Hinzelmann began suddenly to clapper in the ladies' chamber like a stork, and then said, "Maid Anne, you much go look for your things to-day in the mill-stream."

Существительное

1. A rabbit burrow.

   Употребление

   • вышедшее из употребления

   Связанные слова

   clapper bridge

   Примеры

   Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper

Существительное

1. someone who applauds

   Синонимы

   applauder

   Более общие понятия

   laudatorlauderextoller

2. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

   Синонимы

   tonguelinguaglossa

   Более общие понятия

   organarticulator

3. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

   Синонимы

   tongue

   Более общие понятия

   striker