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To have a thirst for. [R.] He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood. Prior.

A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. [Written also tyler.]

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

One who trades; a shopkeeper.

People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur. Simmonds.

it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. Milton. Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. W. Irving.

A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." Piers Plowman.

A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper. Shak.

In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott.

One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. "The warders of the gate." Dryden.

The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. Wardship is incident to tenure in socage. Blackstone.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

The keeper of a warren.

door, Wicket gate, a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above. Bunyan. -- Wicket keeper (Cricket), the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to put the batsman out.

A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.