clap-dish n OED ~ 'wooden dish ... carried by lepers' (1577-);
EDD ~ : 'his tongue moves like a beggar's clap-dish.' Noisy, rattling object; esp
in prov phr. P 167-67 Applied to a gossipy woman— [She's
like] old mother's clap-dish. M 68-24 Your tongue never stops. It's like a miller's
clap-dish.
