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TAPERS
Noun
tapers
plural of taper; thin candles used for lighting other candles.
Anagrams
• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, trapes, treaps
Source: Wiktionary
TAPER
Ta"per, n. Etym: [AS. tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir. tapar, W. tampr.]
1. A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius. Shak.
2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
Ta"per, a. Etym: [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its form.]
Definition: Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tapered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tapering.]
Definition: To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
Ta"per, v. t.
Definition: To make or cause to taper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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