clapper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈklæpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
  2. A rabbit burrow. obsolete
    — Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper
  3. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
  4. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
    — "Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully."
  5. A clapstick (musical instrument).
  6. A pounding block.
  7. The chattering damsel of a mill.
  8. A slapshot
  9. The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
  10. A person's tongue. slang
    — Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […]
动词 v.
  1. To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper. transitive
    — It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell.
  2. To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
  3. Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

词形变化

clappers plural clappers present,singular,third-person clappering participle,present clappered participle,past clappered past clappers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
clapperboard clapper board clapperboy clapperclaw clapperless clapper-loader clapper rail clapper talk clapper-valve handclapper happy clapper like the clappers clapperdudgeon

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English clap
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English clapper
From clap + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
French clapierbor.
English clapper
Borrowed from French clapier.
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