tapper

tapper
tapper1
/tap"euhr/, n.
1. a person or thing that taps or strikes lightly.
2. a telegraph key.
[1800-10; TAP1 + -ER1]
tapper2
/tap"euhr/, n.
1. a person or thing that taps, as trees for the sap or juice, a blast furnace, cask, or other container for their contents, etc.
2. a person who cuts screw threads into the surface of a circular opening, as of a pipe, nut, etc.
[bef. 1000; OE taeppere (not recorded in ME); see TAP2, -ER1]

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