beclap

verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.

He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.

verb

1

To clap for; to applaud.

No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.

In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]

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