Wiktionary
slappers
n. (plural of slapper English)
Usage examples of "slappers".
slappers--- well, to speak true, they're not your proper slappers, on account of the lack of hinging.
Many's the time I was wishing they were true slappers, I mean a slapper fit with hinging, and all the more when it rains--- then it's a cold puddle inside, I can tell you---"
Now, other coaches, they've their slappers mounted both the same, but it's a bother in the yards, you see, for it means the coach must be clamped with the slappers backward, and---"