clapt
Americanverb
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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
"Aw've nivver clapt een on yo' befooar," Sarah sed.
From Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley
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 Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
Maister Bar'clough—doan't know 'un—never clapt eyes on 'un.
From Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee
Francis, laughing, clapt his hand On Everard's shoulder with, "I hold by him."
From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
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