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taverner|ˈtævənə(r)| Also 4 tavernyer, tavarnere, 5 tawerner, -yrner, tavernere, 6 -ar, Sc. -eir, 7 -o(u)r; (5 taberner). [a. AF. taverner = OF. tavernier used in senses 1 and 2 below (c 1200 in Godef. Compl.), f. taverne, tavern, or:—post-cl. L. tabernārius shopkeeper.] 1. One who keeps a tavern; a tavern-keeper. arch.
13..Sir Beues (A.) 4357 He askede at þe tauarnere, Þat armede folk, what it were. 1340Ayenb. 44 And zelleþ ontreweliche, ase doþ þise tavernyers þet uelleþ þe mesure myd scome. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxvi. 28 The tauerner shal not be iustified fro synnes of lippis. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 688/19 Hic tabernarius, taberner. 14..Lytyll Thanke 19 in Ritson Anc. Songs (1792) 78 They callyd the tawyrner to ffyll þe quarte, And lette note for the coste. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiv. 46 (R. MS.) ‘Be Godis bluid’, quod the taverneir, ‘Thair is sic wyne in my selleir As neuir come in this cuntrie’. 1530Palsgr. 279/2 Tavernar a wyne sellar, tauernier. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 46 Are you become indeed a Tavernour, Whose father was a woorthy governour? 1720Strype Stow's Surv. II. 194/1 This Company anciently consisted of..The Vinteners, who were the Merchants that imported Wine.., and the Taverners, who kept Taverns for them, and sold it out by Retayl. 1760J. Adams Diary Wks. 1850 II. 85 [He] may..multiply taverns and dram shops, and thereby secure the votes of taverner and retailer. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. iv. 66 Under the powers of the assigned patent, [he] considerably increased the number of licensed taverners. †2. One who frequents a tavern or taverns; a tippler. Obs.
1340Ayenb. 51 Vor alþeruerst he becomþ tauernyer, þanne he playþ ate des. 1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. ii. xc. 278 b, There is..nothyng more vayne then typplers and Tauerners. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 (1619) 129 So should I be a swearer? a taverner? a drunkard? |