rapper

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
2. The knocker of a door.
3. A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
4. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
5. A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
6. A sword.
7. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
8. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
9. A bold lie; a whopper.
10. A loud oath.

Etymology

From rap + -er.