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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

The lesser spotted woodpecker (

Dendrocopus minor

); – called also

tapperer

tabberer

little wood pie

barred woodpecker

wood tapper

hickwall

, and

pump borer

[Prov. Eng.]

See also: täpper

tapper ‎(plural tappers)

One who taps.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
  A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]
A tap-dancer.
A phone tapper or wiretapper.
(baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
(US) A tapster.
(telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
(Britain, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.

tapper

tapper