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Definition of Tappable
1. capable of being tapped [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tappable
Literary usage of Tappable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"These climbers are of very slow growth and are not tappable until they reach the
age of 8 or 10 years. Some of them attain a diameter of 12 inches and a ..."
2. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The tree is tappable at 6 years of age. The latex is coagulated by allowing ...
These climbers are of very slow growth and are not tappable until they reach ..."
3. A Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting, with Special Reference to Ceylon by Hugh Fraser Macmillan (1914)
"They are tappable- at six to seven years of age when the yield should be about
100 Ib. per acre; at eight years old the yield may be 175 Ib. per annum, ..."
4. Rubber by Philip Schidrowitz (1911)
"Opinions differ, however, in regard to the age at %vhich a tree is mature, or
rather, tappable. Such opinions are, perhaps, not always entirely uninfluenced ..."
5. Helping School Children: Suggestions for Efficient Cooperation with the by Elsa Denison (1912)
"... The general interest of communities in school affairs may not be continuous,
may not be steadily intelligent, but it is a tappable source at a crisis. ..."
6. Helping School Children: Suggestions for Efficient Cooperation with the by Elsa Denison (1912)
"... it is a tappable source at a crisis., This was demonstrated in Philadelphia
when the need for a new school code came up, or when in New York a new ..."
7. Helping School Children: Suggestions for Efficient Cooperation with the by Elsa Denison (1912)
"... The general interest of communities in school affairs may not be continuous,
may not be steadily intelligent, but it is a tappable source at a crisis. ..."
8. The Rubber Industry of the Amazon and how Its Supremacy Can be Maintained by Joseph Froude Woodroffe, Harold Hamel Smith (1916)
"... viz., 4s. per tree, apparently, ie, £1000 for about 5000 trees, to put a
seringal on a tappable basis. No wonder that at present Brazilian rubber finds ..."
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