détaper
French, verb/de.ta.pe/
détaper is spelled D-É-T-A-P-E-R (7 letters). Détaper is a French verb meaning “to take out the tompion (of a cannon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ôter les tapes de liège qui ferment la bouche des canons”.
What does détaper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take out the tompion (of a cannon)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ôter les tapes de liège qui ferment la bouche des canons. 2. Ôter les tapes des formes, chez les raffineurs de sucre.
verb: 1. Enlever le ruban adhésif de quelque chose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of détaper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- détapant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- détapé participle past
- détape first-person indicative present
- détapes indicative present second-person
- détapons first-person indicative plural
- détapez indicative plural present
- détapent indicative plural present
- détapais first-person imperfect indicative
- détapait imperfect indicative singular
- détapions first-person imperfect indicative
- détapiez imperfect indicative plural
- détapaient imperfect indicative plural
- détapai first-person historic indicative
- détapas historic indicative past
- détapa historic indicative past
- détapâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détaper?
- /de.ta.pe/
- \de.ta.pe\
- \de.te.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.