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clap-bread
[f. clap v.1 9 b; i.e. bread clapped thin.]
Oatmeal cake, beaten or rolled thin, and baked hard. Also called clap-cake.
1691Ray N. Country Wds. s.v. Bannock, 2 Clap-bread, thin hard oat-cakes. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 289 Oat-cakes for Bread, or Clapt-bread, as it is called. 1860Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë 45 She spoke of the oat-cake at Cowan Bridge (the clap-bread of Westmorland) as being different to the leaven-raised oat-cake of Yorkshire. 1863― Sylvia's L. (ed. 2) I. 62 The great rack of clap-bread hung over-head. 1878Cumberl. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clap bread, cakes beat and clapped out with the hands. |