#tapping

• Tapping — The act of tapping and its result; rhythmic knocking, repeated striking on a hard object, or producing a detached noise through gentle and persistent hitting. In regional or workshop language, the term describes the manual process of crafting through repeated strikes (such as flattening leather or shoe soles by a shoemaker).
• Tapping sound — A noise produced through repeated, detached, and rhythmic striking; a light tapping, persistent knocking, or dry sound resulting from the repeated contact between two hard bodies. As a participle, it represents the inflected form of the verb băcăni, describing an object that has been subjected to manual flattening or knocking.