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Word Meanings - TAVERNMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.

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  • TAVERNER
    One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.
  • TAVERNING
    A feasting at taverns. "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.
  • TAVERNMAN
    The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.
  • TIPPLER
    1. One who keeps a tippling-house. Latimer. 2. One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.
  • KEEPER
    1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
  • TAVERN
    A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.
  • KEEPERSHIP
    The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
  • OUTKEEPER
    An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
  • INNKEEPER
    An innholder.
  • POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
    The keeper of a pound.
  • CROWKEEPER
    A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.
  • BOOKKEEPER
    One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
  • SHOPKEEPER
    A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
  • HOUSEKEEPER
    1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
  • DOORKEEPER
    One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
  • BARKEEPER
    One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
  • GAMEKEEPER
    One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.
  • BOXKEEPER
    An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
  • UNDERKEEPER
    A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.
  • STOREKEEPER
    1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper. 2. One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.

 

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