tapster

[ tap-ster ]

/ ˈtæp stər /

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noun

a bartender.

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Origin of tapster

before 1000; Middle English; Old English tæppestre.See tap², -ster

OTHER WORDS FROM tapster

un·der·tap·ster, noun

Words nearby tapster

tappit-hen, taproom, taproot, taps, tapsal-teerie, tapster, tapu, tap water, taqiyah, taqlid, taqueria

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How to use tapster in a sentence

Boy, bid the tapster of the Boars Head fill me a dozen cans of beer for my journeymen.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker
There was a tapster, that with his pots' smallness, and with frothing of his drink, had got a good sum of money together.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'|Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
Robin shaped himself like to the tapster's brewer, and came and demanded twenty pounds which was due to him from the tapster.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'|Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
At this the tapster swore Walsingham; but for all his swearing, the brewer made him pay him his twenty pounds.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'|Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

John Fry is waiting by the tapster's door, and Peggy neighing to me.
Lorna Doone|R. D. Blackmore

British Dictionary definitions for tapster

tapster

/ (ˈtæpstə) /

noun

rare a barman

(in W Africa) a man who taps palm trees to collect and sell palm wine

Derived forms of tapster

tapstress, fem n

Word Origin for tapster

Old English tæppestre, feminine of tæppere, from tappian to tap ²

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