Clapper vs Clipper - What's the difference?
clapper | clipper |
One who claps.
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring.
A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
(label) A pounding block.
Anything that clips.
* 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
(chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
# (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
# (informal) An Alberta clipper.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
As nouns the difference between clapper and clipper
is that clapper is one who claps or clapper can be (label) a rabbit burrow while clipper is anything that clips.As a verb clapper
is to ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.clapper
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(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)- Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common