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TAPSTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tapster mean?
• TAPSTER (noun)
The noun TAPSTER has 1 sense:
1. a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
Familiarity information: TAPSTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
tapper; tapster
Hypernyms ("tapster" is a kind of...):
publican; tavern keeper (the keeper of a public house)
Derivation:
tap (a plug for a bunghole in a cask)
tap (a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask)
Context examples
Tapster, ostler, varlet, hark hither, and a wannion on your lazy limbs!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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