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gap⋅er

  [gey-per]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that gapes.
2. Also called horse clam. a large clam, Tresus capax, common on gravelly and coarse-sand beaches.
Origin:
1630–40; gape + -er 1
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Gaper

Gap"er\, n. 1. One who gapes.

2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A European fish. See 4th Comber. (b) A large edible clam (Schizoth[ae]rus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam. (c) An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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