tapper
1- a person or thing that taps or strikes lightly.
- a telegraph key.
Origin of tapper
1tapper
2- a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
- a person who cuts screw threads into the surface of a circular opening, as of a pipe, nut, etc.
Origin of tapper
2Examples from the Web for tapper
Contemporary Examples of tapper
Answering Tapper's question, “Under what conditions would you agree to return to the U.S.?”
When jokes started veering towards the Holocaust, Tapper was quick to wag his finger, as might seem appropriate.
Says Tapper: “I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.”
Historical Examples of tapper
He almost had them believing in the Space Wave Tapper before he was through.
Toy ShopHenry Maxwell Dempsey
Then, suddenly, came the sharp click of the “tapper” as it struck the “coherer.”
Historic InventionsRupert S. Holland
At first, all our attention is taken up by watching how the one tapper does his work.
RubberEdith A. Browne
He was asked what was his trade, and replied that he was a tapper.
Essays of TravelRobert Louis Stevenson
Suddenly there sounded the sharp click of the tapper as it struck the coherer.
The Story of Great InventionsElmer Ellsworth Burns
tapper
- a person who taps
- a tool or instrument that taps
- Northern English dialect an unstable and violent person