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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knacker \Knack"er\, n.
1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc --Mortimer.
2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely
between the fingers, and struck together by moving the
hand; -- called also {clapper}. --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clapper \Clap"per\, n. [F. clapier.]
A rabbit burrow. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clapper \Clap"per\, n.
1. A person who claps.
2. That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or
the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc See
Illust. of {Bell}.
{Clapper rail} (Zo["o]l.), an Americam species of rail
({Rallus scepitans}).
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
clapper
n 1: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous
membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: {tongue},
{lingua}, {glossa}]
2: metal piece that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by
hitting the side [syn: {tongue}]
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