Clappers

Word CLAPPERS
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Clappers"

What do we mean by 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.

A clapstick (musical instrument).

A pounding block.

The chattering damsel of a mill.

A slapshot

The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.

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The word "clappers" in example sentences

~~Attach "clappers" to all the lights in the dungeon just before a paddling ❋ Azurelunatic (2002)

The primary occupant, originally installed on a green bier, was arrayed like a dancer, with bell-like ornaments made of shells and "clappers" made of canine teeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But time will tell, and I have to be honest - people on here right to voice an opinion, we dont all have to agree to "clappers". ❋ Unknown (2009)

"clappers," and were used, especially by strangers and summer guests, for orientation and description of location. ❋ Various (N/A)

"The team found bell-like ornaments made of shells and" clappers "made of dog teeth, which were likely placed around the king's waist and legs, Houston said. ❋ Bsuper8 (2010)

I'm hoping to go like the clappers the next few days and really break the back of this beast. ❋ Karenmiller (2009)

The best intro of the week, going off like the clappers before taking a step or two down into familiar psychedelia. ❋ Paul MacInnes (2010)

Germain's novel opens with the arresting image of Sabine, a middle-class mother concealing a rug impulsively stolen from the Christmas sales: "Her silhouette large and bell-like, her legs like two clappers which despite their brisk to-and-fro produce no sound". ❋ Alfred Hickling (2010)

At the direction of this committee, boys were sent out with muffled drums to beat a tattoo through the broad avenues of the city, and the bells in the church steeples and the State House were tolled with muffled clappers. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

Basically, I'll be going like the clappers till between now and August. ❋ Karenmiller (2008)

Watch me go like the clappers over the next two and a half weeks ... * g* ❋ Karenmiller (2008)

It was a regimented crowd, wearing identical red jackets, hats and soccer scarves, banging wooden clappers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing much came out of the dream of dancing except for my father asking me to stop prancing around the house click-clacking those darn wooden clappers. ❋ Angella Nazarian (2010)

So, they hatch a plot, complete with telepath, to get one of the old clappers that are secreted away into space, and make a run for someone out of the control of said authorities. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

She's got some clappers in the audience, but the committee, by and large, is not amused. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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