Crossword clues for clapper
clapper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knacker \Knack"er\, n.
One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
--Mortimer.One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., agent noun from clap (v.). Meaning "tongue of a bell" is from late 14c. Old English had clipur. Meaning "hinged board snapped in front of a camera at the start of filming to synchronize picture and sound" is from 1940.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who claps. 2 (senseid en bell) An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring. 3 A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper. 4 A clapstick (qualifier musical instrument English). 5 (label en sewing) A pounding block. vb. (context transitive English) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper. Etymology 2
n. (label en obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Clapper or Clappers may refer to:
- Part of a bell
- Clapper bridge
- The Clapper, a sound activated electrical switch
- A character from the video game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
- Clapperboard, used in film production to aid synchronizing audio and video and to identify different shots
- Clapper (musical instrument), consisting of two pieces of wood struck together
- James R. Clapper, the current Director of National Intelligence of the United States
- Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, a United States Supreme Court case
- Clappers, Scotland, a small village in Scottish Borders, Scotland
- Clappers (record label), a New York-based reggae label
- Clappers (song), a song by Wale
A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument. It consists of two long solid pieces that are clapped together producing sound. A straightforward instrument to produce and play, they exist in many forms in many different cultures around the world. Clappers can take a number of forms and be made of a wide variety of material. Wood is most common, but metal and ivory have also been used. The plastic thundersticks that have recently come to be popular at sporting events can be considered a form of inflated plastic clapper.
Several specific forms of clapper have their own names, such as the Chinese guban or the Korean bak. In the classical music of Thailand, a similar instrument is called krap. In Vietnam, the coin clapper called sinh tiền is widely used. In medieval French music, clappers called tablettes or cliquettes were used. In the Western symphony orchestra, a clapper called the whip (also called slapstick) is occasionally used in the percussion section.
The term is not to be confused with bell clapper.
Usage examples of "clapper".
If he also missed the hoofbeats that approached through the din made by children beating clappers to scare flocking sparrows from the seed grain, Diegan obstinately faced forward as the rider arrived and fell in alongside.
For three days and nights the riverain forest jangled with the festal sounds of kettledrums, wood clappers, harps and flutes and frenzied laughter.
Another turn and she faced Picardy again, but this time her hands were full of bright bells and clappers.
Finally they come, eight of them, armed with tiny knives and little wooden clappers like castanets which they clap near the ears of their victims in a ritual of childish Zenlike spite.
I noticed that their bells are not allowed to swing like ours, but are motionless, being rung by a rope attached to the clapper.
Steps crossed downstairs at a run and someone took a clapper to a metal pan and started beating on it.
Her mouth was so dry her tongue rattled between her teeth like the clapper in a bell.
Nevertheless, the note left her heart rattling around like a bell clapper as she rushed off to find Feaver.
It did turn up The Amorous Adventurs of Molly Clapper in Corporal Colon's locker, however.
Young Sam had acquired a lighter one, but out of deference to Vimes's crisply expressed wishes, kept the clapper muffled with a duster.
He therefore applied to his bell, which he rung at least twenty times without any effect: for my landlady was in such high mirth with her company, that no clapper could be heard there but her own.
The Clapper, where you plug this thing into the wall and you can turn on and off your lights or the TV or anything just by dapping your hands.
This type of fitting is called a butterfly valve, and the clapper looked just like a butterfly, suspended and twirling in the water flow.
The horses came out onto the course and cantered down to the start, and the frizzy-haired boy with the clapper board, who happened to be close to me, said with sudden and unexpected fierceness, “.
His job entailed operating the clapper board before every shot, keeping careful records of the type and footage of film used, and loading the raw film into the magazines which were used in the cameras.