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† ˈaleˌstake Obs.
[f. ale- 4.]
1. A stake or post set up before an alehouse, to bear a garland, bush, or other sign, or as a sign itself; an alepole. Also fig.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 667 A garland had he set upon his heed, As gret as it were for an ale-stake. 1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 32 To the wine and ale stakes to renne. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 1557, 642/1 Set vp for a bare signe, as a tauerners bush or tapsters ale stake. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 50/1 This Popish Decree and Indulgense, as a new Merchandise or Ale-stake to get Money. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 64 An Ale-stake..vide May-pole.
2. A frequenter of the alehouse; a tippler or sot.
1583Babington Wks. 104 If he be a drunken alestake, a ticktack tauerner. 1656Trapp Exp. 1 Tim. iii. 3 (1868) III. 641/1 No Ale-stake, tavern-haunter, that sits close at it. |