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TAP, v.t. To strike with something small, or to strike a very gentle blow; to touch gently; as, to tap one with the hand; to tap one on the shoulder with a cane.

TAP, v.i. To strike a gentle blow. He tapped at the door.

TAP, v.t.

1. To pierce or broach a cask, and insert a tap.

2. To open a cask and draw liquor.

3. To pierce for letting out a fluid; as, to tap a tumor; to tap a dropsical person.

4. To box, or bore into; as, to tap a maple tree to obtain the sap for making sugar.

TAP, n. A gentle blow; a slight blow with a small thing.

She gives her right hand woman a tap on the shoulder.

1. A spile or pipe for drawing liquor from a cask.



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TAP, v.t. To strike with something small, or to strike a very gentle blow; to touch gently; as, to tap one with the hand; to tap one on the shoulder with a cane.

TAP, v.i. To strike a gentle blow. He tapped at the door.

TAP, v.t.

1. To pierce or broach a cask, and insert a tap.

2. To open a cask and draw liquor.

3. To pierce for letting out a fluid; as, to tap a tumor; to tap a dropsical person.

4. To box, or bore into; as, to tap a maple tree to obtain the sap for making sugar.

TAP, n. A gentle blow; a slight blow with a small thing.

She gives her right hand woman a tap on the shoulder.

1. A spile or pipe for drawing liquor from a cask.

TAP, n.

  1. A gentle blow; a slight blow with a small thing. She gives her right hand woman a tap on the shoulder. Addison.
  2. A spile or pipe for drawing liquor from a cask. [But in Sp. tapar is to stop, and a tap may be a stopper. In this case, the verb to tap, should follow the noun.]

TAP, v.i.

To strike a gentle blow. He tapped at the door.


TAP, v.t.1 [Fr. taper; Arm. tapa, tapein; Dan. tapper, to throb; Gr. τυπτω, τυπος. See Class Db, No. 28.]

To strike with something small, or to strike a very gentle blow; to touch gently; as, to tap one with the hand; to tap one on the shoulder with a cane.


TAP, v.t.2 [Sax. tæppan; Sw. tappa; Dan. tapper; D. tappen; G. zapfen.]

  1. To pierce or broach a cask, and insert a tap.
  2. To open a cask and draw liquor. Addison.
  3. To pierce for letting out fluid; as, to tap a tumor; to tap a dropsical person. Sharp.
  4. To box, or bore into; as, to tap a maple tree to obtain the sap for making sugar. Mease.

Tap
  1. To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
  2. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

    Addison.
  3. To strike a gentle blow.
  4. A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
  5. To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
  6. To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
  7. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
  8. A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
  9. Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
  10. A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

    Wilhelm.
  11. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.

    [Colloq.]
  12. To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.

    Shak.

    He has been tapping his liquors. Addison.

  13. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

    [Colloq.]
  14. To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
  15. A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.

    On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap. (b) Broached, or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. -- Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling furnace.

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Tap

TAP, verb transitive To strike with something small, or to strike a very gentle blow; to touch gently; as, to tap one with the hand; to tap one on the shoulder with a cane.

TAP, verb intransitive To strike a gentle blow. He tapped at the door.

TAP, verb transitive

1. To pierce or broach a cask, and insert a tap

2. To open a cask and draw liquor.

3. To pierce for letting out a fluid; as, to tap a tumor; to tap a dropsical person.

4. To box, or bore into; as, to tap a maple tree to obtain the sap for making sugar.

TAP, noun A gentle blow; a slight blow with a small thing.

She gives her right hand woman a tap on the shoulder.

1. A spile or pipe for drawing liquor from a cask.

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