ale-pole
English
Noun
ale-pole (plural ale-poles)
- Alternative form of alepole
- 1889, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church:
- 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."
- 1892 July, Thomas H. B. Graham, “The Malt Liquors of the English”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 273, page 55:
- 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.
- 1983, Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History 1200-1830, page 68:
- By the end of Elizabeth's reign, however, the ale-pole was starting to lose ground.
- 2010, Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept:
- By the time he finally spotted the protruding ale-pole, Gilbert Fitz John had gotten his boots thoroughly muddied, almost had his money pouch stolen by a nimble-fingered thief, and had been forced to fend off so many beggars and harlots that he doubted he'd reach the Rutting Stag with either his purse or his honour intact.
- 2012, Greg Walker, John Skelton: Everyman Poetry:
- I know, pole-axeman (or ale-pole haunter?), she pulled the wool over your eyes