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clapper

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clap·per  (klpr)
n.
1. One who applauds.
2. The tongue of a bell.
3. Slang The tongue of a garrulous person.
4. clappers Two flat pieces of wood held between the fingers and struck together rhythmically.

clapper [ˈklæpə]
n
1. a person or thing that claps
2. (Engineering / Tools) a contrivance for producing a sound of clapping, as for scaring birds
3. Also called tongue a small piece of metal suspended within a bell that causes it to sound when made to strike against its side
4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) a slang word for tongue [1]
go (run, move) like the clappers Brit informal to move extremely fast
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.clapperclapper - someone who applauds                
extoller, laudator, lauder - someone who communicates high praise
2.clapperclapper - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
articulator - a movable speech organ
mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris - the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy"
gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud - an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue
pharynx, throat - the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
3.clapperclapper - metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
striker - the part of a mechanical device that strikes something
Translations
clapper [ˈklæpəʳ] N [of bell] → badajo m (Cine) → claqueta f
to run like the clappers (Brit) → correr como loco
clapper
n (of bell)(Glocken)klöppel m; to go/drive/work like the clappers (Brit inf) → ein Mordstempo draufhaben (inf)


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At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon's armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight- and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians.
He therefore applied to his bell, which he rung at least twenty times without any effect: for my landlady was in such high mirth with her company, that no clapper could be heard there but her own; and the drawer and chambermaid, who were sitting together in the kitchen (for neither durst he sit up nor she lie in bed alone), the more they heard the bell ring the more they were frightened, and as it were nailed down in their places.
The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.
 
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