Ale-pole

Quick meaning: Ale-pole is a noun meaning Alternative form of alepole.

Meaning

Alternative form of alepole.

Example Sentences

I know, pole-axeman (or ale-pole haunter?), she pulled the wool over your eyes

By the end of Elizabeth's reign, however, the ale-pole was starting to lose ground.

The bush is occasionally shown in old pictures, and on the Bayeux tapestry will be found a representation of a building adorned with an ale-pole.

Now, a wise man will tell him that he playeth the fool, for the ale-pole doth but signifie that there is good ale in the house where the ale-pole standeth, and will tell him that he muste go near the house and there he shall find the drinke,, and not stand sucking the ale-pole in vayne."

Word Forms

• ale-poles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ale-stake, tent-pole, barberpole, may-pole, bean-pole, tail pole.

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