tapster
Americannoun
noun
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rare a barman
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(in W Africa) a man who taps palm trees to collect and sell palm wine
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tapster
before 1000; Middle English; Old English tæppestre. See tap 2, -ster
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Flesh & Blood Jaundice put master tapster Ray Bolger in hospital, closed Broadway's Three to Make Ready for the time being.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lower social stratum is represented by a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a dyer, and a tapster; all of consideration in their own grade, and likely to become aldermen some day.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
Some time I was a taverner, A gentle gossip and a tapster, Of wine and ale a trusty brewer, Which woe hath me wrought.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
“And so you are tapster at the ‘Commonwealth.’
From The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
He was a portly, sallow man with a blustering manner and looked more like a bailiff or a tapster than a brine-pickled gentleman of fortune.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Frank Earle Schoonover
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