Definitions
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- adjective Without a
clapper (as of a bell).
Etymologies
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clapper + -less
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Examples
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Head, and that she must be just about over the spot where the buoy was floating with its clapperless bell.
Monitress Merle Angela Brazil 1907
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They are clapperless with the only sound coming from the recorded audio, intended as a visual metaphor to match the narrated legend of the lost music in the depths of the ocean.
icLiverpool 2010
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The silence from the audience rang like a clapperless bell. ...
GotPoetry.com News 2010
bilby commented on the word clapperless
Jeb Bush :-/
September 25, 2021