jerry lord

Noun

jerry-lord (plural jerry-lords)

1. (UK, rare, slang) A tavernkeeper.
   • More than once I have entered rooms at twelve o'clock noon, where half-a-dozen of prostitutes were drinking with as many men. Sometimes they listened with some attention to what I said; but when the “jerry lord" saw that his ‘”craft was in danger,” he began to order the "Scotch tormentor" off.1843, Logan, William, An exposure ... of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale and especially ... Glasgow, page 10