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Tapper   /tˈæpər/   Listen
Tapper

noun
1.
A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks.  Synonym: tapster.
2.
A person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly.
3.
A worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads.
4.
Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire.  Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper.
5.
A dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes.  Synonym: tap dancer.





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"Tapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... frightfulness in the world; over the whole land, mingled with the reek of candles carried in procession and of incense burnt to celebrate a massacre, brooded the sultry miasma of human blood and tears. On the one side flashed the savage sword of Alva and the pitiless flame of the inquisitor Tapper; on the other were arrayed, behind their dykes and walls, men resolved to win that freedom which alone can give scope and ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... the words first came into being, when the true significance of this form was altogether lost{174}; or like 'tapster', which was female in Chaucer ("the gay tapstere"), as it is still in Dutch and Frisian, and distinguished from 'tapper', the man who keeps the inn, or has charge of the tap, or as 'bakester', at this day used in Scotland for 'baker', as 'dyester' for 'dyer', the word did originally belong of right and exclusively to ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... question is a double-instrument outfit, which enables an operator at either end of the line to cause a "buzzer" or "tapper" to work at the other end when he depresses a key and closes an electric circuit. Each unit consists of three main parts—(1) the transmitting key; (2) the receiving buzzer or tapper; ...
— Things To Make • Archibald Williams
... Cadbury, Richard Tapper.—A draper and haberdasher, who started business here in 1794. One of the Board of Guardians, and afterwards Chairman (for 15 years) of the Commissioners of the Streets, until that body was done away with. Mr. Cadbury was one of the ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell


Words linked to "Tapper" :   tavern keeper, worker, person, soul, somebody, dancer, mortal, terpsichorean, eavesdropper, professional dancer, publican, individual, wiretapper, tap, someone


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