clap up

English

Verb

clap up (third-person singular simple present claps up, present participle clapping up, simple past and past participle clapped up)

  1. to imprison
    • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC:
      orders were sent down for clapping up three of the chief remonstrators
    • 1852, Hannah Lawrence, The Treasure-seeker's Daughter:
      precious Master Lyndwode hath his deserts at last; he's clapped up safe in the Gate-house
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