Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any female seal.

  2. (obsolete)A hooded seal.

Origin

Borrowed from Dutch klapmuts (“hooded seal, hat with ear-flaps”).

Borrowed from Dutch klapmuts (“hooded seal, hat with ear-flaps”).

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Forms

plural: clapmatches
Singularclapmatch
Pluralclapmatches

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedclockmutch

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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