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clapper Definition

clap·per (klapər)

noun

  1. a person who claps
  2. the moving part inside a bell, that strikes the side of the bell; tongue
  3. the tongue of a garrulous person: used facetiously

clapper Synonyms

clapper

n.

tongue of a bell, clack, noisemaker; see tongue 3.

clapper Usage Examples

Possessives

  • bell: The next problem is that the bell's clapper must strike the correct side of the bell.

Converse of object

  • have: The Barron Bell Trust have also donated £ 2000 so that the all of the bells can now have wrought iron clappers.
  • allow: This would allow new clappers to be interchanged with old without any significant change in appearance.
  • produce: Learn about our new partnership with the Worcester Clapper team, exploring the possibilities of producing composite clappers.

Adjective modifier

  • wooden: A wooden clapper that was sounded by the prior to summon the monks to eat, wash or attend a meeting.
  • wrought: The Barron Bell Trust have also donated £ 2000 so that the all of the bells can now have wrought iron clappers.
  • heavy: In 1957 new, heavier clappers were provided for the 23 smallest bells.
  • composite: Learn about our new partnership with the Worcester Clapper team, exploring the possibilities of producing composite clappers.

Modifies a noun

  • loader: He started in the business in 1967 working in film as a clapper loader and focus puller.
  • bridge: Beyond the gate, walk on for a few meters to cross a small stream on a clapper bridge.
  • board: The leather is handsewn to the clapper boards which are finely made of hardwood.
  • blow: The next graph shows how the intensity of the main partials varies with the position of the clapper blow.
  • strike: We will be refitting the bells rotated by 90 degrees in order to let the clapper strike a fresh arc of the sound bow.
  • boy: Thomson's first film as clapper boy was So Well Remembered, which was photographed by the world-renowned cinematographer Freddie Young.

Noun used with modifier

  • bell: This concerns both the bell itself as well as the bell clapper.
  • iron: The hoard of Roman bells, made of bronze with iron clappers, was found by a detectorist in Essex.
  • stone: It has a stone clapper bridge over the East Dart river, one of 30 such bridges on Dartmoor.
  • tenor: Such ringing as was done was mainly on the front six as the tenor clapper gave up the ghost soon after we began.
  • granite: Visit nearby Two Bridges and Postbridge with its granite clapper bridge.

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