Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to work larboard and clapperclaw into my everyday conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Off-Topic Thursday: Eat Your Words] Reference
Ratoon thundering in his rear, with out -- stretched arm; and it does happen, I am assured, that the hot pursuit often continues for a mile, before the desired clapperclaw is obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
For all these same birds did so peck, clapperclaw, and maul one another all that time, that there was the devil and all to do, and the island was in a fair way of being left without inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
I see thou hast played me a scurvy trick, thou villainous fellow, cried the angry devil; at last I am fully resolved even to make an end of the business betwixt thee and myself about the ground, and these shall be the terms: we will clapperclaw each other, and whoever of us two shall first cry Hold, shall quit his share of the field, which shall wholly belong to the conqueror. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
He will clapperclaw thee tightly, bully. From Wordnik.com. [ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies....] Reference
Who did each other clapperclaw. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
And mind you clout and clapperclaw the cull. From Wordnik.com. [Krindlesyke] Reference
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