clapper
See also: Clapper
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æpə(r)
Etymology 1
Noun
clapper (plural clappers)
- One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
- An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
- 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37:
- "Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully."
- 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37:
- A clapstick (musical instrument).
- (sewing) A pounding block.
- The chattering damsel of a mill.
- (ice hockey) A slapshot
- (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
Synonyms
- (musical instrument): clapstick, musicstick
Derived terms
- clapperboard
- clapperboy
- clapperclaw
- clapperless
- clapper talk
- clapper-valve
- handclapper
- like the clappers
Translations
the tongue of a bell
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rattle
Verb
clapper (third-person singular simple present clappers, present participle clappering, simple past and past participle clappered)
- (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.
- To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
- Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
Etymology 2
Noun
clapper (plural clappers)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clapper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Verb
clapper
- to click (the tongue)
Conjugation
Conjugation of clapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | clapper | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | clappant /kla.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | clappé /kla.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | clappe /klap/ |
clappes /klap/ |
clappe /klap/ |
clappons /kla.pɔ̃/ |
clappez /kla.pe/ |
clappent /klap/ |
imperfect | clappais /kla.pɛ/ |
clappais /kla.pɛ/ |
clappait /kla.pɛ/ |
clappions /kla.pjɔ̃/ |
clappiez /kla.pje/ |
clappaient /kla.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | clappai /kla.pe/ |
clappas /kla.pa/ |
clappa /kla.pa/ |
clappâmes /kla.pam/ |
clappâtes /kla.pat/ |
clappèrent /kla.pɛʁ/ | |
future | clapperai /kla.pʁe/ |
clapperas /kla.pʁa/ |
clappera /kla.pʁa/ |
clapperons /kla.pʁɔ̃/ |
clapperez /kla.pʁe/ |
clapperont /kla.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | clapperais /kla.pʁɛ/ |
clapperais /kla.pʁɛ/ |
clapperait /kla.pʁɛ/ |
clapperions /kla.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
clapperiez /kla.pə.ʁje/ |
clapperaient /kla.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | clappe /klap/ |
clappes /klap/ |
clappe /klap/ |
clappions /kla.pjɔ̃/ |
clappiez /kla.pje/ |
clappent /klap/ |
imperfect2 | clappasse /kla.pas/ |
clappasses /kla.pas/ |
clappât /kla.pa/ |
clappassions /kla.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
clappassiez /kla.pa.sje/ |
clappassent /kla.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | clappe /klap/ |
— | clappons /kla.pɔ̃/ |
clappez /kla.pe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “clapper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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