clapper

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree French clapierbor. English clapper Borrowed from French clapier.

1. A rabbit burrow.

   “Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English clap Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English clapper From clap + -er.

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

   “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.”

2. To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
3. Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.