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A dish or basin with a movable lid. Some two or three centuries ago beggars used to proclaim their want by clacking the lid of a wooden dish.
“Can you think I get my living by a bell and clack-dish?
“… . How’s that?
“Why, begging, sir.” Family of Love (1608).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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