clapper

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
2. noun An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
3. noun A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
4. noun A clapstick (musical instrument).
5. noun A pounding block.
6. noun The chattering damsel of a mill.
7. noun A slapshot
8. noun The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

Similar words

lingua tongue glossa clawing handclapper applauder claqueur clapper-loader clutcher clencher

Often followed by

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Word family

clappers