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Entries releated to CLAP

 

AFTER-CLAP		A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end.
BAYARD OF TEN TOES		To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances, BEAK. A justice of-peace, or magistrate. Also a judge or chairman who presides in court. I clapp'd my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free; I began to weep, and the judge set me free.
BLEEDERS		Spurs. He clapped his bleeders to his prad; be put spurs to his horse.
BURNER		A clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap.
BURNT		Poxed or clapped. He was sent out a sacrifice, and came home a burnt offering; a saying of seamen who have caught the venereal disease abroad. He has burnt his fingers; he has suffered by meddling.
CLAP		A venereal taint. He went out by Had'em, and came round by Clapham home; i.e. he went out a wenching, and got a clap.
CLAP ON THE SHOULDER		An arrest for debt; whence a bum bailiff is called a shoulder-clapper.
CLAPPER		The tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man or woman.
CLAPPER CLAW		To scold, to abuse, or claw off with the tongue.
CLAPPERDOGEON		A beggar born.
CLAWED OFF		Severely beaten or whipped; also smartly poxed or clapped.
COMB		To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him.
DRAM		A glass or small measure of any spirituous liquors, which, being originally sold by apothecaries, were estimated by drams, ounces, etc. Dog's dram; to spit in his mouth, and clap his back.
FLAP DRAGON		A clap, or pox.
GALLOPER		A blood horse. A hunter. The toby gill clapped his bleeders to his galloper and tipped the straps the double. The highwayman spurred his horse and got away from the officers.
HAD'EM		He has been at Had'em, and came home by Clapham; said of one who has caught the venereal disease.
PALLIARDS		Those whose fathers were clapperdogens, or beggars born, and who themselves follow the same trade: the female sort beg with a number of children, borrowing them, if they have not a sufficient number of their own, and making them cry by pinching in order to excite charity; the males make artificial sores on different parts of their bodies, to move compassion.
PERSUADERS		Spurs. The kiddey clapped his persuaders to his prad but the traps boned him; the highwayman spurred his horse hard, but the officers seized him.
PISS POT HALL		A house at Clapton, near Hackney, built by a potter chiefly out of the profits of chamber pots, in the bottom of which the portrait of Dr. Sacheverel was depicted.
RUNNING HORSE, or NAG		A clap, or gleet.
SCALDER		A clap. The cull has napped a scalder; the fellow has got a clap.
SHOT		To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped.
SHOULDER CLAPPER		A bailiff, or member of the catch club. Shoulder-clapped; arrested.
SUNBURNT		Clapped; also haying many male children.
TETBURY PORTION		A cunt and a clap.
TOKEN		The plague: also the venereal disease. She tipped him the token; she gave him a clap or pox.