0 a person who owns or manages an inn, especially in the past --
1 a person who owns or manages an inn (= a hotel) --
In addition, there was also a number of other units, for instance a mill, a number of cottages (gatehus) housing soldiers, parish clerks (klockare), innkeepers (gastgivare), and so on.
Of those male inhabitants older than five years of age, 92 were listed as pupils and students, 54 as innkeepers, 18 as bakers, and 17 as tradesmen.
The innkeeper would also give advice and information to those of his lodgers who were not familiar with the litigation procedure or the workings of the yamen court.
The innkeeper also detained defendants at the request of the magistrate, or acted as a bailsman for defendants found guilty.
In the process the family declined from gentlemen status to innkeepers.
The ties with the innkeepers especially were tightened.
The iconoclasts, led by a local innkeeper, entered the church in mid-sermon.
However, if not, the court's analogical reasoning might have made the grouping of innkeepers and steamboat owners salient for future purposes.
