Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CLAP, v.i.

1. To move or drive together suddenly with noise. The doors around me clapt. – Dryden.
2. 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.
3. To strike the hands together in applause. Bid them clap. – Shak.