tape noun [AS. tæppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]

1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

Red tape: See under Red.

Tape grass (Bot.): a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; – called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.

Tape needle" See Bodkin, noun, 4.

-- Websters 1913