clapt
Americanverb
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The old witch clapt her skinny hands together, and smiled encouragingly upon her handiwork.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
In doinge of the saied Workes, besids the Hutch used by estimate about 150 Tonns, at viiis, and the Hutch about 40 Tonns, being trees only slitt and clapt together at 5s the Ton.
From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls
“De ain’t no tellin’ what dem Yankees would do ef dey once clapt hands on you.”
From Plantation Sketches by Margaret Devereux
And he's clapt down in our gudeman's chair, The wee, wee German lairdie!
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by James Pringle Thomson
Take 'em both, Thomas," says he, wonderfully angry and stern, "and they shall be clapt into the stocks, sink me so they shall.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
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