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Definition of Alehouse
1. Noun. A tavern where ale is sold.
Definition of Alehouse
1. n. A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.
Definition of Alehouse
1. Noun. A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alehouse
1. a tavern where ale is sold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alehouse
Literary usage of Alehouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1829)
"1. c. any licence from (wo justices of the peace, kept an alehouse against the
... But admitting that it would * Every inn i» not an alehouse, nor every ..."
2. Quarter Sessions Practice: A Vade Mecum of General Practice in Appellate and by Frederick James Smith (1882)
"The Wandsworth Board of Works — alehouse . 65 Cope r. Barber — Church ......
188 Copley v. Burton — alehouse • ....... 70 83 85 — v. Cope — Affiliation . ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"But Doctor Wry; ;t.til.l lu- n or if she would not, he would still havo ) 113
Hing alehouse." Says a third: "Go with interim comes the doctor. ..."
4. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"In Scotland a wisp of straw upon a pole is, or was heretofore, the indication of
an alehouse. So in a quotation already made, ..."
5. Reading Records: Diary of the Corporation by J. M. Guilding (1896)
"At this daye it was enformed that] Ellys Boules keepeth alehouse without licence,
and he, beinge convented, saith he doth not ..."
6. The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry (1914)
"There are two public houses open to the poorer citizens—the alehouse and the
Workhouse. The rich man frequents neither, yet as magistrate or guardian he ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"A small inn or alehouse, S. " There ¡aa little kind of ... One who keeps an
alehouse, or a petty inn, Perths., ..."
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