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to strike with resounding blows.
transitive. To strike, hit, knock, beat, with sounding blows. Obsolete or archaic. (To clap a dish (quot. 1678): cf. clap-dish, n.)
transferred. transitive (with various objects): To deal or inflict, drive or impel, sound or give forth, strike, attack, or bombard, put down or…