clapper
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“That’s a clapper rail,” Mike said, an endangered bird that makes its home in the estuary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
More steel tubes branch out from the top of the rods in an interlinked canopy that is hung with dozens of differently shaped and patterned ceramic bells, each with a copper clapper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
He measured mileage by attaching a rod inside a wagon wheel — based on the circumference of the wheel, a clapper would sound at each mile and that’s where a marker would go.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2020
Julia: The clapper, most ingeniously used to turn on and off a Christmas tree.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2019
It wasn’t a mechanical sound like the ring of a holophone but a real bell with a metal clapper.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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