clapper
clapper
Definition
clap·per (klap′ər)
noun
- a person who claps
- the moving part inside a bell, that strikes the side of the bell; tongue
- the tongue of a garrulous person: used facetiously
clapper
Synonyms
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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