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clapper

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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clap=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

clappern. 
  •  A person who claps.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.  [1913 Webster]
Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).
clappern. [F. clapier.].
     A rabbit burrow.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

clapper, n. the tongue or striker of a bell.

Idiom
like the clappers Brit. sl. very fast or hard.

THESAURUS

clapper

Klaxon, bell, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, catcall, cherry bomb, chimes, church bell, clack, clacker, cowbell, cracker, cricket, dinner bell, dinner gong, doorbell, fire bell, firecracker, gong, gong bell, hand bell, horn, jingle bell, noisemaker, passing bell, rattle, rattlebox, sacring bell, sheepbell, siren, sleigh bell, snapper, steam whistle, telephone bell, ticktack, tintinnabulum, tongue, triangle, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

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