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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
clapper .
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Examples
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Sam's blue jacket as her tongue clappered above it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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Sweet William squeaked and clappered at him in the night.
The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949
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On their vanishing shadows Mr. Pimble clappered his heelless slippers, with the long skirts of his palm-figured wrapper streaming on the air behind him; like the grim ghost of manhood pursuing its flying aggressors.
Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858
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The father laid down his broom passively, and saying, "What an impatient little miss you are!" clappered off to the dining-room, and brought forth the desired articles on a waiter.
Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858
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Mr. Pimble, in his wife's sun-bonnet, clappered his heelless slippers at mid-day along the garden paths, in the vain hope of warming his laggard blood to a brisker flow.
Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858
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The house jarred and creaked, her bed rocked under her, loose boards on the roof clappered and rattled, snow pelted the window-shutter.
Margaret 1851
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