clapper

Meanings

Plural: clappers

Noun

• someone who applauds
• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
• metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
• 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 (musical instrument).
• A pounding block.
• The chattering damsel of a mill.
• A slapshot
• The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
• A person's tongue.
• 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.

Synonyms

applauder, clapstick, glossa, lingua, musicstick, tongue

Related Words

clapper bridge