clapper
/ˈklapə
/noun
The tongue or striker of a bell.Magister Rumbold Crucible woke up feeling that someone had been using his head as a bell clapper which, he groggily reasoned, probably accounted for the sickening swaying sensation as well....
- The town crier, in trying to ring out the Prince's arrival, found the clapper of his bell stuck fast.
- They will now be taken to Nottingham, where the bells and the clappers themselves will be refurbished.
Phrases
like the clappers
Rhymes
- capital flight
- capital flow
- capital formation
- capital funding
- capital gain
- capital gains tax
- capital gearing
- capital goods
- capital growth
- capitalhood
- capital improvement
- capital inflow
- capitaling
- capital injection
- capital intensity
- capital-intensive
- capital investment
- capitalisation
- capitalise
- capitalism
- capitalist
- capitalistic
- capitalistically
- capitalist imperialism
- capitalist-imperialist