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wheel-tapper

wheel-tapper is the alternative form of wheeltapper.

Meaning of wheeltapper

Noun

wheeltapper (plural wheeltappers)

  1. (UK, historical) A railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.

Forms of wheel-tapper

pluralwheel-tappers

Questions about wheel-tapper

What is wheel-tapper the alternative form of?
Wheel-tapper is the alternative form of wheeltapper.

Words near wheel-tapper in the dictionary

  1. wheel-horses
  2. wheel-house
  3. wheel-houses
  4. wheel-race
  5. wheel-races
  6. wheel-tapper
  7. wheel-tappers
  8. wheel-up
  9. wheel-ups
  10. Wheelabies
  11. wheelable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheel-tapper (page history and authors); wheeltapper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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