Associations to the word «Tappet»

Wiktionary

TAPPET, noun. A lever or projection which is moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, in order to produce change or regulate motion.

Dictionary definition

TAPPET, noun. A lever that is moved in order to tap something else.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope