clap-trap | Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

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Clap
·noun Noisy talk; chatter. II. Clap ·vi To knock, as at a door. III. Clap ·noun <<Gonorrhea>>. IV...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
clap
A venereal taint. He went out by Had'em, and came round by Clapham home; i.e. he went out a wenching...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to clap
To set down; charge to one's account. If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lesse...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Trap
·noun The game of trapball. II. Trap ·noun A wagon, or other vehicle. III. Trap ·noun A kind of mo...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
trap
To understand trap; to know one's own interest. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
after-clap
A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, a...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
clap down
To set down; charge to one's account. If a man be highly commended, we think him sufficiently lesse...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
clap-bread
thin hard oat-cakes. Lane. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
after-clap
Whatever disagreeable occurrence takes place after the consequences of the cause were thought at an ...

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clap-board
[German, klapp-bord]. An east-country commercial plank, which ought to be upwards of 13 feet in le...

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clap-match
A sort of seal, distinct from the fur-seal. ...

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clap on!
The order to lay hold of any rope, in order to haul upon it. Also, to "Clap on the stoppers before...

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clap-sill
The lockage of a flood-gate. ...

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Trap shooting
·add. ·- Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a t...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
beau trap
A loose stone in a pavement, under which water lodges, and on being trod upon, squirts it up, to the...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bully trap
A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bum trap
A sheriff's officer who arrests debtors. Ware hawke! the bum traps are fly to our panney; keep a goo...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
louse trap
A small toothed comb. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
man trap
A woman's commodity. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
potatoe trap
The mouth. Shut your potatoe trap and give your tongue a holiday; i.e. be silent. IRISH WIT. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
trap sticks
Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
grub-trap
A vulgarism for the mouth. ...

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trap-creel
A basket for catching lobsters. ...

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wentle-trap
The Scalaria pretiosa, a very elegant univalve shell, much valued by collectors. ...

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Bear-trap dam
·add. ·- A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at t...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
up to trap
Knowing; shrewd. English and American. Phrenology is a little bit dangerous. It is only fit for an ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
clap on the shoulder
An arrest for debt; whence a bum bailiff is called a shoulder-clapper. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose