Definitionn. a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone
Last update: July 9, 2015
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Watch-towers with wooden clappers and the beacons which flashed the alarm along the whole frontier in a few hours are still features in the landscape. [Please select]
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The Professor followed, and tongues went like mill-clappers while Mary lighted up and cook devoted herself to an unusually good supper, instinctively divining that this guest was a welcome one. [Please select]
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So he shook it a little, just to show that it was growing limber, and the bone clappers on the end rustled with a sharp, angry noise. [Please select]
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For half an hour, five tongues went like mill clappers, and there is no knowing when they would have stopped if the little bell had not suddenly rung with a violence that made them jump. [Please select]
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At the sound, many of the village youths ran up quickly, and with cries and rude bird-clappers scared the birds away, only to set to work again at some more distant spot. [Please select]
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Even as they so stood there fell upon the clear air of the morning a hollow, far-off sound--the sound of wooden clappers rattled together, and the hopeless crying of two words, "Unclean." [Please select]
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