tapster

[ tap-ster ]

noun

1. a bartender.

tapster

/ ˈtæpstə /

noun

1. rare.
   a barman
2. (in W Africa) a man who taps palm trees to collect and sell palm wine

Derived Forms

• ˈtapstress, noun:feminine

Other Words From

• under·tapster noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of tapster¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English tæppestre. See tap ², -ster

Word History and Origins

Origin of tapster¹

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

Example Sentences

Boy, bid the tapster of the Boars Head fill me a dozen cans of beer for my journeymen.

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There was a tapster, that with his pots' smallness, and with frothing of his drink, had got a good sum of money together.

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Robin shaped himself like to the tapster's brewer, and came and demanded twenty pounds which was due to him from the tapster.

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At this the tapster swore Walsingham; but for all his swearing, the brewer made him pay him his twenty pounds.

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John Fry is waiting by the tapster's door, and Peggy neighing to me.

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