fore-clap, noun
- Origin:
- South African DutchShow more Calque formed on South African Dutch voorklap, voor front + klap flap.
obs.
The canvas curtain hanging at the front of a covered wagon. Cf. after-clap, klap noun2.
1850 R.G.G. Cumming Hunter’s Life I. 23‘Fore-clap’ and ‘after-clap,’ which is the colonial name for two broad canvas curtains, that form part and parcel of the sail, and hang in the front and rear of the waggon, reaching to within a few inches of the ground.
1897 H.A. Bryden Nature & Sport 208From the fore-clap (curtain) of the buck-wagon the faces — none too clean — of two or three children peer forth.
The canvas curtain hanging at the front of a covered wagon.
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