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"One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands."
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"word": "srdce zvonu"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "Challe"
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"lang": "Hebrew",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"word": "harangnyelv"
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"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"word": "kólfur"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "boschrann"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "teanga cloig"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"word": "battaglio"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "batacchio"
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jaras",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"word": "جرس"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"word": "badalo"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
"tags": [
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"word": "limbă"
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"alt": "ко́локола",
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"word": "язы́к"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "batazu"
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"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "batàgliu"
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"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "tratallu"
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"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"masculine"
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"word": "badajo"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"code": "vec",
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "batocio"
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"sense": "the tongue of a bell",
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"word": "batòcolo"
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"ref": "1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37",
"text": "\"Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully.\"",
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"A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper."
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"sense": "rattle",
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"neuter"
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"feminine"
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"word": "kereplő"
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"word": "szélkelep"
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"sense": "rattle",
"word": "ngutu rakiraki"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "rattle",
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"word": "трещо́тка"
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"A clapstick (musical instrument)."
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"A pounding block."
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"The chattering damsel of a mill."
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"A slapshot"
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"(ice hockey) A slapshot"
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"The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself."
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"(cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself."
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"ref": "1683, S. P., The Dutch Rogue, Or, Gusman of Amsterdam, page 238",
"text": "Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […]",
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"glosses": [
"A person's tongue."
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"id": "en-clapper-en-noun-JXg8UMaW",
"links": [
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"tongue",
"tongue"
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],
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"(slang) A person's tongue."
],
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"slang"
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}
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"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/ˈklæpɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"code": "it",
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"word": "جرس"
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"code": "vec",
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{
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
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{
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"ref": "1903, Baron Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells",
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[
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{
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"Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together."
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}
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"General-American"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
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],
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"word": "clapper bridge"
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"categories": [
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"A rabbit burrow."
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"(obsolete) A rabbit burrow."
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"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": jazýk (kólokola) vs. ко́локола",
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