tapster

[ tap-ster ]

/ ˈtæp stər /

a bartender.

Origin of tapster

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

un·der·tap·ster, noun

taproom, taproot, taps, tapsal-teerie, tapsalteerie, tapster, tapu, taqiyah, taqlid, taqueria, tar

He had recourse to the law everywhere, and the tapster was everywhere acquitted.

The Awakening |Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
In the same chamber were the tapster and his dame; for privacy was not compatible either with "mine host's" means or inclination.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) |John Roby
Here I had some of the company of the tapster's wife a while, and so home to my office, and then home to supper and to bed.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete |Samuel Pepys
Of the little party gathered together at Wyndfell Hall, Tapster was the one whom the doctor felt he really didn't like.

From Out the Vasty Deep |Mrs. Belloc Lowndes

Ben Jonson calls for a quart of raw wine, and gives it to the tapster.

Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England |Richard Valpy French

tapster

/ (ˈtæpstə) /

rare a barman

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

tapstress, fem n

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