Clapping ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] That claps; that makes a noise as of two hard bodies struck together, etc.: see CLAP v.¹

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1583. Stanyhurst, Poems (Arb.), 137. A clapping fyerbolt (such as oft, with rownce robel hobble, Ioue toe the ground clattreth).

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1722. [see CLAP v.²].

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1816. L. Hunt, Rimini, I Wks. 1832, 3.

	Callings, and clapping doors, and curs unite,
	And shouts from mere exuberance of delight.

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