clapt

American  

[klapt] / klæpt /

verb

Archaic.

1. simple past tense and past participle of clap.

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Example Sentences

"Come, come," replied Cromwell, "we have had enough of this"; and striding into the midst of the chamber, he clapt his hat on his head, and exclaimed, "I will put an end to your prating!"

From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by Green, John Richard

Maister Bar'clough—doan't know 'un—never clapt eyes on 'un.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland

And when any one was taken, they lifted vp their armes and clapt handes.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

So he had him clapt in a winnowing basket and there soundly trounced: even as I had been dealt with the day before, when I tried those magical arts and found them false.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von

I clapt my hands; the guitar was speaking to me; the dear guitar was singing to me; murmuring and singing to me, the guitar.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman