[f. CLAP v.1 9 b; i.e., bread clapped thin.] Oatmeal cake, beaten or rolled thin, and baked hard. Also called clap-cake.

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1691.  Ray, N. Country Wds., s.v. Bannock, 2 Clap-bread, thin hard oat-cakes.

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1769.  De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., III. 289. Oat-cakes for Bread, or Clapt-bread, as it is called.

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1860.  Mrs. Gaskell, C. Brontë, 45. She spoke of the oat-cake at Cowan Bridge (the clap-bread of Westmorland) as being different to the leaven-raised oat-cake of Yorkshire. Ibid. (1863), Sylvia’s L. (ed. 2), I. 62. The great rack of clap-bread hung over-head.

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1878.  Cumberl. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Clap bread, cakes beat and clapped out with the hands.

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