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Meaning of tappit hen | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
    rare
  2. A hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.
    Scotland

Examples

“Blyth , blyth , blyth was she, Blyth was she but and ben; And well the loo'd a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a tappit hen”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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