clapper

Meanings

Noun

• One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
• An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
• A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
• A clapstick .
• A pounding block.
• The chattering damsel of a mill.
• The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
• A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.
• A rabbit burrow.

Verb

• To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
• To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
• Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

Related

Similar words

• clapstick, musicstick

Origin

• clap + -er
• Borrowed from French clapier.