Now rare or Obs. [f. prec. sb., as a rendering of med.L. tabernāre, f. taberna (common in 14–15th c.).]
† 1. trans. Of a leaseholder or copyholder: To subdivide his tenement; ? orig. to erect a cottage (taberna) on his holding, and apportion a piece of land to it. north. Obs.
[1365. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), I. 38. Idem Johannes illud [tenementum] tabernavit sine licencia. Ibid., 42. De Johanne Anderson pro licencia tabernandi unum cotagium.
1402. Charta (Du Cange). Ne scolaribus detur occasio mercandi seu Tabernandi.]
1534. Augm. Off., Convent. Leases, Yorks., No. 888. That the said Thomas and Roger his sonne … shall not taverne the said fermhold nor no parcell therof bot to dwell and remane of the said fermhold apon payn [etc.].
1551. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 72. If it happ my wife to latt or taverne any parte of said fermehold, (not beyng of habilitie to occupie the same) then I will that Roland my eldest sonne have it.
1575. [see TAVERNING 1].
1577. Eccl. Proc. Bp. Barnes (Surtees), 18. And doe not let out, lease out, or taverne out, their livings.
2. intr. To frequent taverns; also to tavern it.
1580, etc. [see TAVERNING 2].
1610. Histrio-m., VI. 209. Each … taverns it with drunken suppers still.
† b. trans. with out: To spend in ‘taverning.’
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] lvii. 164. When, like Nero, thou should’st Taverne out thy time with Wantons.
