tapping gouge

A gouge used in tapping the sugar-maple, and in making the spiles by which the sap is conducted to the buckets. tap'-pit, a. [TAP (3), 8.) Crested. tappit-hen, s. 1. Lit .: A hen with a crest. 2. Fig .: A tin pot with a knob on the cop, contain IMG:content-0817.png:[blocks in formation] tăp'-ster, *tap-stere, s . [A. S. tæppestre , a fem. form of tæppere =a tapper.] [-STER.] One who taps or draws ale in an alehouse. (The word was originally feminine.) "Shrill-tongued tapsters answering every call." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 849. *tăp-ster-lý, a. [Eng. tapster ; -ly.] Befitting a tapster; low; vulgar. "In any tapster lie tearmes."-Nashe: Introduction to Greene's Menaphon, p. 9. tăp-toô, s. [TATTOO, 8.] A beat of a drum. ta-pû', s. [TABOO.] *ta'-půl, s . [Etym. doubtful.] Mil.: The sharp projecting ridge down the center of some breast-plates. *tăp-wôrt, s . [Eng. tap (2), s., and wort .] The refuse of the tap; dregs. IMG:content-0818.jpg:[graphic] "A cup of small tapworte." Breton: Joyes of Idle Head, p. 26.