Device attached to a maple tree to drain sap

Publish date: 2024-06-15
•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.•To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.•A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.•A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.•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.•To strike a gentle blow.•A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.•A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.•Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.•A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.•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.•To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.•Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.•To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.•To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.

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