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tapster
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks [syn: tapper ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person employed to tap liquors," Old English tæppestre "female tavern-keeper, hostess at an inn, woman employed to tap liquors," fem of tæppere , from tæppa "tap" (see tap (n.1)) + fem. ending -ster . The distinction of gender in the word was lost by 15c., ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tapster \Tap"ster\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppestre a female tapster. See Tap a plug, pipe, and -ster .] One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
Usage examples of tapster.
There was a lot of jazz and jabber in the air, what with the good champagne, the prettified canapes, the tuxed tapsters, the money, and swapping the odd smile or wave or shout I moved among them, free as water.
Malthouse, the tapster, was arguing to Dame Martin that a murder now and then was a seasonable check to population, without which the Isle of Sheppey would in time be devoured, like a mouldy cheese, by inhabitants of its own producing.
And these things cut into the profits in a big way -- damages, nice customers scared off, tapsters harder to hire.
The clowns, tinkers, shepherds, tapsters, and such folk, he probably knew by name.
The bawd and one of the tapsters were knocked over as she and the Green Girl rushed out of the house.
Virtue is of so little regard in thesecostermonger times that true valour is turnedbear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hathhis quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all theother gifts appertinent to man, as the malice ofthis age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.
With this permission Sancho settled himself as comfortably as he could on his beast, and taking out of the alforjas what he had stowed away in them, he jogged along behind his master munching deliberately, and from time to time taking a pull at the bota with a relish that the thirstiest tapster in Malaga might have envied.