clapper in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Other devices, such as wooden clappers ("hyoshigi") were sometimes used in urban war camps, or urban skirmishes, to set time and encourage troops.
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As the clapper touches one bell, it is charged by one pile, and then electrostatically repelled, being attracted to the other bell.
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Bon dances may employ the use of different utensils, such as fans, small towels and wooden hand clappers.
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The size of the flight determines the rate at which the clapper swings, and therefore the point at which it strikes the bell.
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Trapezoid-shaped wooden troughs of various sizes in several vertical rows with one or two wooden or metal small clappers hanging inside them.
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A second way is to pick up the third bell sideways so that the clapper swings outward.
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Towards the end of the first round, the clapper (the device used to signal the remaining 10 seconds of the round) sounded.
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The clapper consists of two flat pieces of hardwood (either "zitan", "hongmu", or "hualimu" rosewood) or bamboo that are tied loosely together on one end.
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Instead, by pulling a rope the clapper was impelled against the inner face of the bell.
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Rather than containing a clapper, "bonsh" are struck from the outside, using either a hand-held mallet or a beam suspended on ropes.
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