clapper

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Her sense of ruin was like lead, but was somehow the cause of exultation in her heart as the clapper is the cause of the peal of a bell.

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  1. noun One who applauds.
  2. noun The tongue of a bell.
  3. noun Slang The tongue of a garrulous person.
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  • Then the clock began to spin on its thread, and the clapper was visibly smashing back and forth between the little brass bells. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Ted if you're not a happy clapper, are you a flappy capper!!??? lol. —  Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
  • "Every time I would come back from a flight, I would go straight home, change into my yellow shirt, take my hand-clapper and go down to join the PAD at Government House." —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • The rise of solid-state tapeless shooting has seen a subsequent reinvention of the role we might traditionally have known as the clapper-loader.
  • It functions like a clapper light, but uses the electromagnetic energy emitted through the eyes instead of the sound of a hand clapping. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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  1. from Middle English clapper, claper, cleper (= Dutch klapper = Middle High German klapper, klepper, a chatterer, blabber (later G. klapper), = Middle High German klepfer, etc.); from clap, v., + -er.
  2. from clapper, n.
 

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