An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

TAPONE-STAFF, s. The stave in which the bung-hole is.
Acts C. II.

Q. tapping-staff.

TAPOUN, s. A long fibre at a root, S. B.

Belg. tappen, to draw out.

Baillie.

TAPPIE-TOUSIE, s. A play among children, S., exhibiting a memorial of the ancient feudal mode of receiving a person as a bondman, by taking hold of the hair of his forehead.

From tap, and tousie dishevelled.

TAPPILOORIE, s. Any thing raised high on a slight tottering foundation, S.

Teut. tap, extremitas rotunda et acuta, and loer-en, speculari.

TAPPIN, s. A crest, S. O.
Falls of Clyde.