clapper

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

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

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

"Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully."

A clapstick (musical instrument).

A pounding block.

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.

To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.

Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

A rabbit burrow.

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