Definition of Rappir
Rap"per (răp"p&etilde;r), n.
[From Rap.] 1. One who, or that which,
raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
Sterne.
2. A forcible oath or lie. [Slang]
Bp. Parker.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
RAPPER. A swinging great lie.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
- A performer of Rap music
- A forcible oath or lie.
- An obsolete Scottish English word for "sword"
- A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing
- A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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