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Definition of Tapsters
1. tapster [n] - See also: tapster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapsters
Literary usage of Tapsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"City, in addition to, and on the same condition as, the tapsters' Excise, the
following Burgher Excise, viz'. On each tun of good beer Twenty stivers each ..."
2. Colonial Liquor Laws: Part II. of "Liquor Laws of the United States; Their by Gallus Thomann (1893)
"As some brewers were also tapsters, and many tavern-keepers brewed their own
beer, it was easy for them to evade the ordinance, so far at least as the beer ..."
3. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"ORDINANCE Of the Vice-Director and Commissaries of Fort Orange regulating tapsters;
against playing Golf in the ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1892)
"14, 26 ; proclamations to brewers and tapsters, i. 62, 75, 1n, 117, 164, ii.
5, and see entries for Prices of ale ; all alehouses to be shut at 10 pm in ..."
5. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1867)
"That the Inn-Keepers and tapsters to whom wo have granted yet four year«, at
least, who- shall wish, for sufficient reason«, to change their business, ..."
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