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Definition of Tap house
1. Noun. A building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks.
Specialized synonyms: Beer Garden, Bucket Shop, Gin Mill, Pothouse, Pub, Public House, Saloon, Taphouse, Rathskeller, Shebeen
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tap House
Literary usage of Tap house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"54- Gaolers are not to be licensed to sell wine or other liquors ; nor to have
any beneficial concern in any tap-house. Penalty. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"3* Tap-room, bar, tap-house. Taper, a. Conical, pyramidal, tapering. ...
Tap-house, //. Ale-house, public-house, tavern, drinking-house. ..."
3. A Botanical Tour Through Various Parts of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall by John Pike Jones (1820)
"Corn fields, North Bovey. Melittis grandiflora. In the road between tap house
and Crediton. Vicia sylvatica. Hedges at Watermouth, near Ilfracombe. THE END. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"For mine own part, I never come into any room in a tap-house but I am drawn In.
+1:«/., M. for 11., ii. 1. 219. Taphozous (taf-o-zo'us), ». ..."
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