Meaning

10 senses
  1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.

    someone who applauds

  2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

    Klöppel, Schwengel

    язы́к

  3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

    трещо́ткаtreščótka

  4. A clapstick (musical instrument).

  5. A pounding block.

  6. The chattering damsel of a mill.

  7. A slapshot

  8. The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

  9. (slang)A person's tongue.

  10. (obsolete)A rabbit burrow.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
the tongue of a bell:
rattle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the tongue of a bell:

Origin

Borrowed from French clapier.

Borrowed from French clapier.

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Forms

plural: clappers
Singularclapper
Pluralclappers

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
musical instrument:clapstickmusicstick
Close in meaning
  • metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side:tongue
  • someone who applauds:applauder
  • a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity:tonguelinguaglossa

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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