clappers

noun

  1. 1

    One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

  4. 4

    A clapstick (musical instrument).

  5. 5

    A pounding block.

  6. 6

    The chattering damsel of a mill.

  7. 7

    A slapshot

  8. 8

    The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

  9. 9

    A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.

verb

  1. 1

    To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.

  2. 2

    To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.

  3. 3

    Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

noun

  1. 1

    A rabbit burrow.

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