a tapster. Ale-drapery, the selling of ale, etc.
“No other occupation have I but to be an ale-draper.”—H. Chettle: Kind-hartsʹ Dreame, 1592.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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