beclap

verb2

1. •
   To clap for; to applaud.

   • No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit. — 1886
2. •
   To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.

   • He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast. — 1605