Definition of Clappir

Clap"per (?), n. 1. A person who claps.

2. That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.

Clapper rail(Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

Clap"per, n. [F. clapier.] A rabbit burrow. [Obs.]

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

CLAPPER. The tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man
or woman.

- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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