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tapster|ˈtæpstə(r)|
Forms: 1 tæppestre, 4 tappester, 4–6 tapester, 5 tap(p)estere, tapstere, 5–6 tappyster, Sc. and n. dial. tapstare, 6 -ar, 5– tapster.
[OE. tæppestre, fem. of tæppere, tapper1: see -ster.]
†1. orig. A woman who tapped or drew ale or other liquor for sale in an inn; a hostess. Obs.
c1000ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 36 Caupona, tæppestre. c1386Chaucer Prol. 241 He knew..euerich Hostiler and Tappestere. c1440Promp. Parv. 486/2 Tapstare, ducillaria, propinaria, clipsidraria. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. vi. h vj b, That I haue sayd of the seruauntes beyng men, the same I say of the women as chaumberers and tapsters. c1485Digby Myst. iii. 495 With sum praty tasppysster wold I fayne rown. a1518Skelton Magnyf. 420 A tappyster lyke a lady bryght. 1568Satir. Poems Reform. xlviii. 100 Thre lassis..That tyme that thay wer tapstaris.
2. A man who draws the beer, etc. for the customers in a public house; the keeper of a tavern.
The word in the first three quots. may be feminine.
c1400Destr. Troy 1594 Tauerners, tapsters, all the toune ouer. c1450Mankind 267 in Macro Plays 11, I haue be sethen with ȝe comyn tapster of Bury. 1530Palsgr. 279/1 Tapster, boutelier, boutiliere. 1570Levins Manip. 77/4 A Tapster, promus. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iii. 17 An old Cloake, makes a new Ierkin: a wither'd Seruingman, a fresh Tapster. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 26 Ther's Tom the Tapster peerelesse for renowne, That drank three hundred drunken Dutch-men downe. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1103/4 John Bowman, late Tapster at the Bear Inn in Bath. 1720Swift Stella's Birthday 9 Though the treach'rous tapster Thomas Hangs a new angel two doors from us. 1871Smiles Charac. i. (1876) 14 The decayed serving-men and tapsters who filled the Commonwealth's army.
†3. One who sells by retail or in small quantities.
1402Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 95 Me thynkith ȝe ben tapsteres, in alle that ȝe don; ȝe tappe ȝour absoluciones that ȝe bye at Rome. c1450Godstow Reg. 101 The abbesse graunted that her men of Wycombe shold be tempters or tapsters of brede and ale in the fee of the same abbesse.
4. Comb., as tapster-like adj.
1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders A iv b, Leauing inkhorne phrases and tapsterlike termes for the tauerne. 1842F. Howes Horace's Sat. i. 2 This tapster⁓like retailer of the laws.
Hence ˈtapstering ppl. a., acting as a tapster; ˈtapsterly a., characteristic of or befitting a tapster; ˈtapstership, the office of a tapster; † ˈtapstry, a tap-room.
1861Sala Dutch Pict. xii. 187 Is he going to scour the country with his marauding, *tapstering butchers?
1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 9 In anie *tapsterlie tearmes whatsoeuer. 1598Barret Theor. Warres i. i. 5 Honest and valiant men, not tapsterly praters.
15971st Pt. Return fr. Parnass. v. ii. 1538 As for youre *tapstershipp in hell, it were a good office in soe whott a place.
14..Beryn 299 The Pardoner..Stalkid in to the *tapstry. |