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5 definitions 
 for clapper
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Knacker \Knack"er\, n.
     1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc. --Mortimer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely
        between the fingers, and struck together by moving the
        hand; -- called also clapper. --Halliwell.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Clapper \Clap"per\, n.
     1. A person who claps.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Clapper rail (Zool.), an Americam species of rail ({Rallus
        scepitans).
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Clapper \Clap"per\, n. [F. clapier.]
     A rabbit burrow. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

  clapper
       n 1: someone who applauds [syn: applauder]
       2: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous
          membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: tongue, lingua,
           glossa]
       3: metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by
          hitting the side [syn: tongue]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "clapper":
     Klaxon, bell, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, catcall,
     cherry bomb, chimes, church bell, clack, clacker, cowbell, cracker,
     cricket, dinner bell, dinner gong, doorbell, fire bell,
     firecracker, gong, gong bell, hand bell, horn, jingle bell,
     noisemaker, passing bell, rattle, rattlebox, sacring bell,
     sheepbell, siren, sleigh bell, snapper, steam whistle,
     telephone bell, ticktack, tintinnabulum, tongue, triangle, whistle,
     whizgig, whizzer
  
  


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