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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. |
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To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes. |
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A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat. |
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A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe
in repairing or renewing the sole or heel. |
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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. |
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To strike a gentle blow. |
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A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn. |
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A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the
like; a faucet. |
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Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality
of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap. |
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A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar. |
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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. |
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To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to
tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc. |
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Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to
tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap
the treasury. |
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To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing. |
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To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool
called a tap; as, to tap a nut. |
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