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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 casksplay

  Familiarity information: TAPSTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAPSTER (noun)


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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