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or table-rapping \ ˈtā-bəl-ˌra-piŋ 
\ or less commonly table tapping or table-tapping \ ˈtā-bəl-ˌta-piŋ \
\ or less commonly table tapping or table-tapping \ ˈtā-bəl-ˌta-piŋ \Definition of table rapping
: spirit rapping The best Sherlock Holmes stories were written before 1916, when Arthur Conan Doyle officially converted to spiritualism and took to table-rapping.— Ian Thomson
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The first known use of table rapping was in 1851
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