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Definition of tappit hen in English English dictionary
- A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle
- A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); so called from a knob on the lid, thought to resemble a crested hen
- A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head
- tappit hens
- plural form of tappit hen
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() Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.Resimler
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