Beclap vs Beclam - What's the difference?
beclap | beclam |
To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.
* 1605 , Tourneur, Worldes Folly :
To clap for.
* 1886 , in The Nation , volume 43, page 414:
* 1891 , in Littell's living age , volume 191, page 260:
* 1903 , in New outlook (Alfred Emanuel Smith), volume 74, page 936:
As verbs the difference between beclap and beclam
is that beclap is to grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly or beclap can be to clap for while beclam is to beclog with anything clammy or sticky.beclap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Verb
- He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.
Etymology 2
Verb
(beclapp)- No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.
- In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive,
- He who has loved quiet, who has so long shunned publicity, must school himself to be cheered and beclapped and huzzaed by thousands every time he lets himself be seen.