A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
A clapstick (musical instrument).
A pounding block.
The chattering damsel of a mill.
An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
A slapshot
One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
To strike out.
To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
To slap (a behind, especially).
To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
To strike out (a batter).
To winnow grain.