The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tavernman \Tav"ern*man\, n.; pl. Tavernmen. The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The keeper of a tavern. 2 (context obsolete English) A tippler.
Usage examples of "tavernman".
When the tavernman held forth upon his liege’s honor, bravery, and farseeing mind without ever mentioning luxuries or reserves of cash, Caradoc grew positively gloomy.
As he was eating mutton stew by the unswept hearth, the tavernman strolled over to gossip.
When the tavernman came by to ask him if he’d be spending the night, on impulse he said that he would.
When he smiled again, she cast a nervous glance at the tavernman, then came much closer.
When Perryn saw that the tavernman was engrossed in conversation with a pair of merchants, he risked laying his hand on her cheek.
The tavernman pointed to the hearth, where a stout woman fussed over a kettle.
He banged on the tavern door until the tavernman came hurrying down in his nightshirt with a candle lantern in his hand.
Gerraent switched saddle and bridle, flung the tavernman a coin, then kicked the gray to a gallop, plunging out of the candlelight and into the night-shrouded road.
The tavernman insisted on putting him up for free and then rattled off a list of symptoms about the pains in his joints.