Taper vs Taber - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between taper and taber

is that taper is a slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light while taber is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

is to make thinner or narrower at one end.

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(en noun)

A slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

* ~1603 , William Shakespeare, ''Othello, Act I, scene I, line 157:

strike on the tinder, ho!/ Give me a taper .

* 1913 ,

Love used to carry a bow, you know,

But now he carries a taper ;

It is either a length of wax aglow,

Or a twist of lighted paper.

A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object

the taper of a spire.

The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.

A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.

* taperwise

(en verb)

To make thinner or narrower at one end.

* 1851 ,

Though true cylinders without — within, the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.

To diminish gradually.

* taper off

* narrow

(en noun)

(weaving) One who operates a tape machine.

Someone who works with tape or tapes.

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(en noun)

(musical instruments)