The dancing on drums is remarkable, but the show-stealer is something called Sand Dance, which turns out to be just that: lanky tapper Guillem Alonso … steps and shuffles on a thin layer of sand. Gordon Cox
The state of Vermont is packed with maple trees and maple tappers and is famed for its maple syrup. Jamie Harrison and Shelley Boris
… set aside large areas of Brazilian rainforest as "extractive reserves," where rubber tappers, nut gatherers, and other local peoples can harvest renewable forest products.Environmental Defense Fund
also: something that is tapped to extract fluid
… Japanese maples are excellent tappers. Steven R. Lorton
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: one who connects to something (such as a telephone line or radio signal) to obtain information surreptitiously
The Internet … has provided new frontiers for law enforcement tappers. John Schwartz
… hired a tapper to intercept telegraph messages in the Civil War. John Schwartz