The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tappen \Tap"pen\, n. An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
Wiktionary
n. A plug that forms in the anus of a bear during hibernation.
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Housing Units (2000): 100
Land area (2000): 1.251960 sq. miles (3.242562 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 1.251960 sq. miles (3.242562 sq. km)
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Location: 46.875903 N, 99.633648 W
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Tappen
Wikipedia
A tappen is an obstruction or indigestible mass found in the intestines of bears and other animals during hibernation. It is also referred to as a "rectal plug." A tappen makes it difficult for the animal to defecate during hibernation, but they are often passed with great pain in the spring time.
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Category:Digestive system
Tappen may refer to:
- Tappen (biology), an indigestible mass found in the intestines of bears after hibernation
- Tappen Park, a park on Staten Island in New York City
- Tappen, North Dakota, a small city in North Dakota
- Tappen, British Columbia, a small city in British Columbia
- Kathryn Tappen, a NESN sportscaster
- Sarah Cornelia Tappen (d. 1800), wife of George Clinton, fourth Vice President of the United States from 1805 to 1812
Usage examples of "tappen".
More telephone conversations ensued between Rupprecht and von Krafft at one end and von Stein and Tappen at the other.
As reported by Colonel Tappen, this was the prospect that shone before the eyes of OHL.
Appalled, he told Tappen that the reinforcements were not “positively” needed in the I East and would in any event arrive too late for the battle that was already [beginning.
The saving [factor, as Tappen reports it, was the “great victory” on the French fron-i tiers which “aroused in OHL the belief that the decisive battle in the [West had been fought and won.
Moltke, Stein, and Tappen discussed anxiously whether to send reinforcements from Rupprecht’s armies to the right wing, but could not bring themselves to give up their attempt to smash through the French fortress line.
Since the reduction of Liege, fortified places had “lost their prestige,” as Colonel Tappen said, and every day seemed to be the one that would see Rupprecht break through.
Commodes, chastely concealing a chamber-pot for use in a lady's bedroom, might have quite a Gothic air about them, so that the infrequent pleasure of defecation -- the displacement of the Victorian female tappen -- was enhanced by a sense of historical continuity.