clapper

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpə(r)

Etymology 1

clap +‎ -er

Noun

clapper (plural clappers)

1. One who claps.
2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring.
3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

Translations

the tongue of a bell

• Breton: bazhoulenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: език (bg) (ezík) m
• Catalan: batall (ca) m
• Czech: srdce zvonu (cs), srdce (cs)
• Esperanto: koro (eo)
• Finnish: kieli (fi)
• German: Klöppel (de) m
• Hebrew: ענבל (he) (inbal) m
• Hungarian: harangnyelv (hu)

• Italian: battaglio (it), batacchio (it) m
• Portuguese: badalo (pt) m
• Russian: язык (ru) (jazýk) m (ко́локола)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: tratallu

  Gallurese Sardinian: battaddólu

  Logudorese Sardinian: battazu, piròne, limbèddu

• Spanish: badajo (es) m
• Swedish: kläpp (sv) c

rattle

• Bulgarian: кречетало (bg) (krečetalo) n
• Czech: řehtačka (cs) f
• Finnish: räikkä (fi)

• Hungarian: kereplő (hu), szélkelep (hu)
• Russian: трещотка (ru) (treščótka) f

Verb

clapper (third-person singular simple present clappers, present participle clappering, simple past and past participle clappered)

1. (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
   • 1903, Baron Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells:

     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.

Etymology 2

French clapier.

Noun

clapper (plural clappers)

1. (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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French

Verb

clapper

1. to click (the tongue)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of clapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		clapper			avoir clappé
gerund		en clappant			en ayant clappé
present participle		clappant
past participle		clappé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	clappe	clappes	clappe	clappons	clappez	clappent
	imperfect	clappais	clappais	clappait	clappions	clappiez	clappaient
	past historic1	clappai	clappas	clappa	clappâmes	clappâtes	clappèrent
	future	clapperai	clapperas	clappera	clapperons	clapperez	clapperont
	conditional	clapperais	clapperais	clapperait	clapperions	clapperiez	clapperaient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	clappe	clappes	clappe	clappions	clappiez	clappent
	imperfect1	clappasse	clappasses	clappât	clappassions	clappassiez	clappassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	clappe	—	clappons	clappez	—
1literary tenses

Derived terms

• clappement