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tap

/tæp/ noun C2
  1. A malarial fever. (uncountable)
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The blunt accusation, the brutal tap upon the shoulder—what can one make of such a denouement?
The Valley of Fear, p. 86 · C1
It came slowly along the passage, and there was a feeble tap at the door.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 50 · B2
Neither of them had time to speak, however, before there was a tap at the door, and the spokesman of the street Arabs, young Wiggins, introduced his insignificant and unsavoury person.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 76 · B2
He tiptoed along the hall and stood for several minutes outside the door of the east gable before he summoned courage to tap on it with his fingers and then open the door to peep in.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 72 · C1

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