英：['tæpstə]
美：['tæpstə]
tapster如何读
tapster是什么意思
- n.酒吧的酒保
tapster英英释义
- n.a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
tapster词源中文解释
"负责开酒的人"，古英语 tæppestre "女酒馆老板，旅店女主人，负责开酒的女性"，来自 tæppere 的女性形式，源自 tæppa "开酒"（参见 tap（n.1））+女性后缀 -ster。该词的性别区分在15世纪已经消失，而在1630年代，重新女性化的 tapstress 已经被证实。
tapster词源英文解释
The first known use of tapster was before the 12th century
tapster 例句
1 For instance, he knew one Bardolph of the brazen, fiery nose, the tapster at the tavern.
2 No, it has the eagle's claw, and wants no help from thee, thou forlorn tapster!
3 Instead of the smiling Hebes who have fascinated the golden youth of the colony, men will serve as tapsters, and without note or comment hand across the counter the required draught.
4 On his way he gives most of his money to bury a dishonest tapster, who has been executed and left frozen in a block of ice outside a church for passers-by to spit upon.
5 A tapster, lounging in the courtyard, had seen my man pass out, and he opined with much reason that I should not catch him.
6 He had recourse to the law everywhere, and the tapster was everywhere acquitted.
7 The tapster praised his charity very much, and said that God would bless him the better for such good deeds: so after they had drank one with the other, they parted.
8 "The cellar door is strong," said the tapster Jocelin, but without confidence.
9 Then the tapster and another workman beat him until he bled, and the following day the tapster's house took fire.
10 For our troops are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality.
11 He was a portly, sallow man with a blustering manner and looked more like a bailiff or a tapster than a brine-pickled gentleman of fortune.
12 Would you have him frequent ale-houses, and fight with drawers and tapsters?
13 "Ale or wine, gentlemen?" he asked, as if he were a tapster.
14 As he proceeds, the youth is joined by the ghost of the tapster, who accompanies him.
15 He is in league with the tapsters for the worshipful of the inn, whom, he torments next morning with his art, and has their names more perfect than their men.
16 The cloths being removed, "the pipe fillers amply produced their fruits, and the tapster regulated his tap which continued to run freely," while the carvers and waiters were having a set-to in the Market House.
17 Of an earlier date is the tapster of the initial block, from Ludlow, who furnishes a comfortable idea of a congenial, and to judge from his pouch, a profitable occupation.
18 “I’m tapster at the ‘Commonwealth,’ in Fish Street—not much of a place.”
19 Harding calls them tinkers, tapsters, fiddlers and pipers, Jewel’s Works, iv.
20 A lower social stratum is represented by a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a dyer, and a tapster; all of consideration in their own grade, and likely to become aldermen some day.