Clapper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
2. isim An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
3. isim 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."”

4. isim A clapstick (musical instrument).
5. isim A pounding block.
6. isim The chattering damsel of a mill.
7. isim A slapshot
8. isim The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
9. isim A person's tongue.
10. fiil To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.

    “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.”

11. fiil To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
12. fiil Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
13. isim A rabbit burrow.

    “Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper”

14. özel isim A surname.