What does after-clap mean?

after-clap

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Frequency: 3.54 in modern English

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"What he loses by Venus he thinks to recover by Mercury, but catches his cure as an after-clap, that commonly proves the worse disease of the two."
"Sir:—I have long feared that by our continually worrying the ministry here with successive after-clap demands for more and more money, we should at length tire out their patience."

after-claps (plural)

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