Tapper
[tæpә]
Definition
(noun.) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire.
(noun.) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads.
(noun.) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly; 'finger tappers irritated her'.
Editor: Nat--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
Edited by Jimmy
Examples
- Analytical Chemist goes to the door, confers angrily with unseen tapper, appears to become mollified by descrying reason in the tapping, and goes out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then, suddenly, came the sharp click of the tapper as it struck the coherer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was another tap, and another, and then a long row of taps; upon which Sam inquired why the tapper was not admitted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The alternate cohering by the waves and decohering by the tapper continue uninterruptedly as long as the transmitting key at the distant station is depressed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The relay _n_ in its turn causes the more powerful battery _r_ to pass a current through the tapper, and also through the electro-magnet of the recording instrument _h_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Vince