Taper vs. Tapper

Tapernoun

A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle

Tapernoun

(by extension) a small light.

Tapernoun

A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object

Tapernoun

A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.

Tapernoun

(weaving) One who operates a tape machine.

Tapernoun

Someone who works with tape or tapes.

Taperverb

(transitive) To make thinner or narrower at one end.

Taperverb

(intransitive) To diminish gradually.

Taperadjective

Tapered; narrowing to a point.

Tapernoun

A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

Tapernoun

A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.

Taperadjective

Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.

Taperverb

To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.

Taperverb

To make or cause to taper.

Tapernoun

a convex shape that narrows toward a point

Tapernoun

the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)

Tapernoun

a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

Tapernoun

stick of wax with a wick in the middle

Taperverb

diminish gradually;

Taperverb

give a point to;

Tappernoun

One who makes a tapping noise.

Tappernoun

A tap-dancer.

Tappernoun

A phone tapper or wiretapper.

Tappernoun

A weakly hit ground ball.

Tappernoun

(telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.

Tappernoun

The lesser spotted woodpecker.

Tappernoun

(US) A tapster.

Tappernoun

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); - called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.

Tappernoun

a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks

Tappernoun

a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly;

Tappernoun

a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads

Tappernoun

someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire

Tappernoun

a dancer who who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes