tapper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
    tapster.
  2. noun a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
    • finger tappers irritated her
  3. noun a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
  4. noun someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
    wiretapper; phone tapper.
  5. noun a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
    tap dancer.

WordNet

Tap"per noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. Prov. Eng.

Webster 1913