clapper vs ringer

clapper

noun
  • An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue. 

  • A clapstick (musical instrument). 

  • A pounding block. 

  • A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper. 

  • The chattering damsel of a mill. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

ringer

noun
  • Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer. 

  • A stockman, a cowboy. 

  • A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse. 

  • A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer. 

  • A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle. 

  • An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve. 

  • A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team. 

  • A top performer. 

  • A ringer T-shirt. 

  • The champion shearer of a shearing shed. 

  • A crowbar. 

  • In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole. 

  • Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor. 

  • A look-alike. 

  • A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground. 

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