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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

... this summer, I had occasion to visit the Falls of St. Anthony, a village of a few houses on the east side of the Mississippi River, ten miles Northwest of St. Paul. I crossed the river to the west side in a birch bark canoe, navigated by Tapper, the ferryman for many years after, until the suspension bridge was built. Examining the Falls, I went down to an old saw mill built by and for the soldiers at Fort Snelling and measured the retrocession of the fall by the fresh break of the rock from the water race way and ...

— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various

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