to clap

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To set down; charge to one's account.

If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lessened, if we clap one sin, or folly, or infirmity, into his account.

Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living.

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Clap
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