Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CLAP
CLAP, v.i.
- To move or drive together suddenly with noise. The doors around me clapt. – Dryden.
- To enter on with alacrity and briskness; to drive or thrust on; as we say to reapers or mowers, clap in, or clap to, that is, enter on the work, begin without delay, begin briskly.
- To strike the hands together in applause. Bid them clap. – Shak.
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