† clack-dish Obs.
A wooden dish with a lid carried and clacked by beggars as an appeal for contributions; a clap-dish.
| 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 135 Your beggar of fifty: and his vse was, to put a ducket in her Clack-dish. 1608 Middleton Fam. Love (N.), Ger. Can you think I get my living by a bell and a clack-dish? Dry. By a bell and a clack-dish? how's that? Ger. Why, by begging, sir. 1861 Wynter Soc. Bees 242 At the door of some alms-house, an old woman may still be seen with her clack-dish before her at certain seasons of the year—the last of her race. |