Obs. rare. [Derivation obscure.] A kind of cloth worker; ? a weaver of burel.
a. 1400. Usages of Winchester, in Eng. Gilds (1870), 350. Þe Tapeners þat worcheþ þe burelles … shullen take for þe cloth xviij d. Ibid., 352. Þe chaloun of foure ellen and o quarter of langnesse, shal habbe tweye ellen and an halfe to-fore þe tapener in þe werke.
