One who taps casks or draws liquor; a tavern-keeper; = tapster, n. 2. Obsolete.

Originally: a woman who tapped or drew ale or other liquor for sale in an inn; a hostess. Obsolete.

The female head of a household; (also) the landlady of an inn. Now chiefly in wife of the house (in later use more likely to be understood as…

One who keeps a tavern; a tavern-keeper. archaic.

An alehouse-keeper.

A retailer of ale and other intoxicating liquor; a tapster; a tavern-keeper. Obsolete.

A woman who brews or sells ale; a female owner or landlady of a public house or tavern. Cf. ale-man n. at ale, n. compounds 2.

One who deals in or sells wine; a wine-merchant; †an innkeeper selling wine.

One who owns or carries on some establishment or business.

a purveyor (purveyor, n. 1a) of ale.

A person who keeps or runs an inn or tavern; an innkeeper.

A person in charge of a cellar; (formerly) = cellarer, n.; (now usually) a person in charge of a wine or beer cellar. Also: a cellarer.

The owner or landlord of a public house or tavern; a publican.

humorous. A person who sells beer. Obsolete.

the owner or landlord of a public house or tavern; cf. alewife, n.1

slang. The keeper of an inn or tavern.

A seller of ale; = ganneker, n.

an innkeeper.

A master, employer, patron, or proprietor.

Applied contemptuously to a publican. Obsolete.

= alewife, n.1

General attributive, as public house club, public house civility, public house keeper, public house parlour, etc.

one who keeps or manages a bar for refreshments, who keeps a toll-bar, or keeps guard at a barrier.

A person who owns or manages a public house or tavern.

(A generic proper name for) the keeper of an inn, hotel, or public house.

a tapster or publican.

licensed victualler, one who has a licence to sell food or drink, but esp. the latter, to be consumed on the premises; a publican.

the keeper of a thermopolion.

a bar-keeper (for refreshments).

one who keeps a drinking saloon; also, in British use, the keeper of a refreshment bar in a theatre.

In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: an innkeeper.

In Germany and German-speaking countries: a pub landlord, an innkeeper.

A brewer, or landlord of a public house. Also, the brewing interest (as in politics); hence attributive or as adj., favouring the brewers or their…

Scottish. A person who runs an inn or alehouse. Cf. change-house, n. Obsolete. rare.

Originally: the host or landlord of an inn, esp. in Spain. Later more widely: the proprietor of any inn or restaurant.

One who attends to, or has charge of, a machine, a business, etc., as bar-tender (a barman), bridge-tender, machine-tender; now esp. U.S.

one who mixes and sells soft drinks, etc., at a soda-fountain.

A person who serves drinks in a bar; a bartender.