† clack-dishn.
Obsolete.
A wooden dish with a lid carried and clacked by beggars as an appeal for contributions; a clap-dish n.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's dish
alms disha1378
clap-dish1587
clack-dish1608
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > rattle used by beggars or lepers
clapperc1330
clicket?a1425
clap1567
clap-dish1587
lazarus-clapper1593
clack-dish1608
lazar's clapper1611
lazar's clicket1611
lazar's snapper1658
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iv. sig. F2 Dri. By a bell and a Clackdish, how's that? Ger. Why by begging sir.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 390 Your beggar of fifty: and his vse was, to put a ducket in her Clack-dish . View more context for this quotation
1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 242 At the door of some alms-house, an old woman may still be seen with her clack-dish before her at certain seasons of the year—the last of her race.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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