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Thunderclap :: Thunderclap (n.) A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon..

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance..

Clap :: Clap (v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.

Clap :: Clap (v. i.) To knock, as at a door..

Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..

Clack :: Clack (v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve..

Clearstarch :: Clearstarch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin..

Beclap :: Beclap (v. t.) To catch; to grasp; to insnare.

Knacker :: Knacker (n.) 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..

Clapper :: Clapper (n.) A person who claps.

Claps :: Claps (v. t.) Variant of Clas.

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To express contempt or derision.

Clinker-built :: Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

Clapper :: Clapper (n.) 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..

Claptrap :: Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.

Spat :: Spat (v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands..

Clap :: Clap (v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.

Clapperclaw :: Clapperclaw (v. t.) To fight and scratch.

Clapcake :: Clapcake (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.

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