claps

1) A vulgar word for venereal disease.

c.1820 To Cure Claps take box and wormwood boil in water & give it them and anoint the barrand with house leek & cream, South Crosland. 'Barrand' was the external part of a cow's sexual organs.

spellings barrand
dates 1820

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