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单词 rattle-clap
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rattle-clap
rattle-clap n. and adj. (a) n. a rattle; a rattling sound (b) adj. characterized by prattling talk or a rattling sound.In quot. 18601 app: a rattle or other noise-maker used to frighten birds (applied figuratively to a person).
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1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders p. viii He may have been only a scarecrow or rattle-clap to the birds in his master's corn field.
1860 E. G. Parker Reminisc. of Rufus Choate v. 249 His was a mere fluency, a rattle-clap common English. He never had time, amid his splendid legal accomplishments, to enlarge his vocabulary.
1862 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 20 Dec. 301/2 The Germania last Saturday performed the ‘Consecration of the Flags’ from the Siege of Corinth; a noisy rattle-clap affair.
1969 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 15 Oct. 4/1 A sudden curve and a rattle clap across a wooden bridge and fields lie checkered with ragged angles.
2003 Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, New Jersey) (Nexis) 17 Aug. a11 To thrive amid the bumper-to-bumper taxicabs, the towering skyscrapers, the funky smells and rattle-clap sounds.
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