[f. TAG v.1 or sb.1 + -ER1.]
1. One who tags: see the verb.
1648. Pair of Spectacles for City, 11. We bound him to a Tagger of Points.
1785. R. Graves, Eugenius, I. ii. 6. Our orators are mere praters—and our poets taggers of rhime.
1883. Sat. Rev., 12 May, 592/1. The Scotch seem to have entertained a mistaken theory that the taggers of rhymes to the prose version of the Psalms were inspired.
† 2. A tag, a projecting part. Obs. ? misuse.
a. 1687. Cotton, Burlesque Gt. Frost, Poems (1689), 98. Comparing Hedg-hogs, or Porcupine’s small Taggers, To their more dang’rous Swords and Daggers.
3. A device for tagging a sheep: see TAG v.1 6.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
4. pl. Very thin sheet-iron, usually coated with tin. (Also taggar.) [Probably so called from being used to make tags of laces.]
1834. McCulloch, Dict. Comm., II. 1160. Taggars 14 by 10 inches, £2 5s.
1853. Lardner’s Cab. Cycl., Manuf. Metals, III. 43. Tinned Taggers, Black Taggers.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Taggers, a very thin kind of tin-plates used for coffin-plate inscriptions and tops of umbrellas.
1879. P. W. Flower, Hist. Tin Trade, xiii. (1880), 156. A sheet of taggers, as thin as paper itself.
1894. U. S. Tariff, Schedule Rates, § 121. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, coated with tin or lead … and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin.
