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ˈclapmatch
[app. a. Du. klapmuts sailor's cap: so called from the cartilaginous hood mentioned in quot. 1743.]
A kind of seal: see quots.
1743Phil. Trans. XLII. 612 (Greenland) Several Sizes of Seals, but of the same Shape, except the Klap-myss, which has a cartilaginous Hood, which covers his Eyes. 1775Clayton ibid. LXVI. 102 The clapmatch seal and the fur seal are..distinct animals..the clapmatch is best pictured in Lord Anson's voyage, under the name of sea-lyon. 1837C. M. Goodridge Voy. S. Seas & Shipwr. (1843) 51 The dog seals are named by Southsea-men Wigs, and the female seals are called Clap-matches. |