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Tapper

noun

A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks. Synonym: tapster.

A person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly.

A worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads.

Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire. Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper.

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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Etymology of 'Tapper'

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"Tapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... standard of Tecumseh or engaging on the side of the British in the late war with England. In that contest he became the ally of the United States, and although he took no active part in it, he exerted a very salutary influence over his tribe. In January, 1813, he visited general Tapper's camp, at fort McArthur, and while there, about ten o'clock one night, when sitting by the fire in company with the general and several other officers, some one fired a pistol through a hole in the wall of the ...

— Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet - With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians • Benjamin Drake

... expect to pay for the information furnished them; at other times, the honor of being included in a list of noted personages who have received similar requests is thought sufficient compensation. The object with which the brain-tapper puts his questions may be a purely benevolent and entirely disinterested one. Such was the object of some of those questions which I have received and answered. There are other cases, in which the ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

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