publican
tavern keeper

She takes a job for a tavern keeper from whom her husband has stolen money.

Blade looked at the tavern keeper, hoping to see him ready to interfere.

In this, however, he was exactly like every other tavern keeper around this area.

The young lady paid the tavern keeper for information.

He sat down on the bench in front of the fire; the tavern keeper paused at his elbow.

Besides his father, the family included farmers, militia leaders, and tavern keepers.

I spoke to the tavern keeper, asking him who had been drinking there the night before.

Charlie Grzybek works today as a tavern keeper back east.

My father was a tavern keeper, and I know how to please a crowd.

After the minute or two, the tavern keeper walked over to me with a scowl.