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clap-dish
clap-dish arch. [f. clap v.1 + dish.] A wooden dish with a lid, formerly carried by lepers, beggars from the lazar-houses, and mendicants generally, to give warning of their approach, and to receive alms.[1567 Turberv. Ovid's Ep. 39 And banisht begge hir breade with dish and clap. ― Poems (1587), Wh... Oxford English Dictionary
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clack-dish
† 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 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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clapper
▪ I. clapper, n.1 (ˈklæpə(r)) Forms: 4–6 claper, (4 cleper, 5 clapur, -yr(e, -ir, -ere, clapparre, 6 clepper), 5– clapper. [f. clap v.1 + -er.] I. An apparatus for clapping, or making a noise. 1. The contrivance in a mill for striking or shaking the hopper so as to make the grain move down to the mi... Oxford English Dictionary
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clap
▪ I. clap, n.1 (klæp) Forms: 3 cleppe (4 klap), 4–7 clappe, 5 clape, 6–8 clapp, 4– clap. [ME. clappe and cleppe (Ancren Riwle, in sense 9), have the form of derivatives of clap v.1, and of a cognate verb corresp. to MLG. kleppen there referred to. No trace of the word has yet been found in OE.; but ... Oxford English Dictionary
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clicket
▪ I. clicket, n. Obs. exc. dial. (ˈklɪkɪt) Forms: 4 cliket(t, kleket, 4–5 clyket(t, 4–6 cleket, 5 clekyt, 6 clickette, clycket, (kliket, clycked), 7 cliquet, 6– clicket. [a. OF. cliquet, which appears to have had most of the Eng. senses; cf. quot. 1300 in sense 1; also Du Cange ‘cliquetus pessulus v... Oxford English Dictionary
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dish
▪ I. dish, n. (dɪʃ) Forms: 1 disc, (3 dischs, diss), 3–5 disch, -e, 4 (dise, dych, diȝsch), dissch, -e, 4–5 dyssh, -e, 4–6 disshe, dishe, 5–6 dyssche, dysch, dysche, 6 diszshe, 3– dish. [OE. disc plate, bowl, platter, = OHG. tisc plate (MHG. and Ger. tisch table), OS. disk table, MDu. and Du. disch ... Oxford English Dictionary
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proctor
▪ I. proctor, n.1 (ˈprɒktə(r)) [A syncopated form of procuraˈtour, procurator, through procutour, procketour, proctour, etc. Cf. proxy = procuracy, also the ME. weakening of procure v. to proker.] A. Illustration of Forms. (α) 3–7 procuratour (5–6 -oure, 6 Sc. -ure), 5 prokeratour, 3– procurator. Se... Oxford English Dictionary
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