Clapper

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpÉ™(r)

clap + -er

Full definition of clapper

Noun

1. One who claps.
2. 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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
• 1903, Baron Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells, It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell.

French clapier.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.