tapper
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- noun
- /ˈtæpər/
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sangrador
- A palm wine tapper donates palm wine to Obol Leboku and thereby confirms his ward's continued commitment to the rites.
- rubber tapper
- palm wine tapper
Examples
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I mean, he just realized that there was a connection between the rubber tappers' struggle to save their way of life and the world's concern for the ecology.
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The palm-wine tapper was menaced by the leopard.
Academic text (2003) -
A house built with the money he stole from the rubber tappers.
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The daughter of Adamma and the palm-wine tapper.
Academic text (2003) -
Seu Nene has spent much of his life as a rubber-tapper on the uplands.
Academic text (2002) -
Traditional populations in the area, such as indigenous groups and rubber tappers, were essentially non-entities in the local political arena due to their low levels of organization.
Academic text (2005) -
Rafael Santos... Leader of the rubber tappers, staged a passive resistance in Padre against the cattle ranch company.
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The tapper climbed the tree carefully to collect the sap for making syrup.
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As a skilled tapper, she knew the best time to tap the maple trees for sap.
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During the festival, the local tapper demonstrated how to harvest the sweet sap from the birch trees.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tapper comes from the simple verb tap, which means to 'draw liquid' through a small hole or spout. So a tapper is someone who makes a small hole in a tree and lets the sap flow out to collect it.