单词 | ale stake |
释义 | ale staken. 1. A stake or post set up as the sign for a public house or tavern, originally having a branch or bunch of leaves attached, later supporting the signboard. Occasionally also (by metonymy): a public house or tavern. Also figurative. Cf. alebush n., ale-pole n. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign lion?a1366 ale stake1396 ivy14.. sunc1400 tokenc1440 eagle1449 chequerc1460 wisp?1507 Saracen's head1510 ale-pole1523 bush1532 wine garland1533 ivy-garland1553 tavern-bush1553 lattice1575 ivy-bush1576 alebush1599 red lattice1604 elephanta1616 sagittarya1616 grate1622 wine-bush1638 popinjay1687 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-front > sign or signboard > specific ale stake1396 ale-pole1523 pole1533 three golden balls1748 cigar-store Indian1926 1396–7 Ottery St. Mary Court Roll m. 81v (MED) Signum voc. Alstake. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 667 A gerland hadde he set vp on his heed As greet as it were for an Ale stake. c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Physician/Pardoner Link (Harl. 7334) (1885) l. 321 Her at þis ale stake I wil first drynke and byt on a cake. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A. l. 1968 She as an Alestake gay and freysshe, Halfe hir body she hadde awey geve. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 642/1 Set vp for a bare signe, as a tauerners bush or tapsters ale stake. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 974/1 This popishe decree & indulgence, as a new marchandise, or Alestake to gette mony. 1656 Shepheards Kalender xl. sig. O6v An ale stake, or a sign is sometime hanged before a house, in the which oft times is no Ale. 1786 G. M. A. Baretti Diccionario Español e Ingles (new ed.) II. (at cited word) Ale-stake, enseña de bodegón. 1842 Metropolitan 35 316 The Lady Eglantine..scantly could know an oak from an ale-stake. 1886 Time Dec. 672 The alestakes..reached so far over the highway as to inconvenience persons riding there. 1906 A. Conan Doyle Sir Nigel vii. 70 They were glad to clear their throats with a glass of beer at the ale-stake in the village. 1961 Mod. Philol. 58 159/1 They jog along, absorbed, to the next ale-stake. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 277/1 The bigger the ale-stake, the more ambitious the innkeeper. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess houndOE drinkerc1200 keach-cup?c1225 gulchcupa1250 bollerc1320 taverner1340 ale stake?1515 wine-bibber1535 bibber1536 swill-bowl1542 malt-wormc1550 rinse-pitcher1552 bibblera1556 ale knight1556 tosspot1568 ring-pigger1570 troll-the-bowl1575 malt-bug1577 gossip-pint-pot1580 black pot1582 alehouse knight1583 worrier1584 suck-spigot1585 bezzle1592 bezzlera1593 cup-leech1593 soaker1593 carouser1596 barley-cap1598 swiller1598 rob-pot1599 Philistine1600 sponge1600 wine-knight1601 fill-knaga1605 reel-pot1604 faithful1609 fill-pot1609 bouser1611 spigot-sucker1611 suck-pint1611 whip-can1611 bib-all-night1612 afternoon man1615 potling1616 Bacchanalian1617 bombard1617 pot-shot1617 potisuge1620 trougha1625 tumbrila1625 borachioa1627 pot-leech1630 kill-pota1637 biberon1637 bang-pitcher1639 son of Bacchusc1640 shuffler1642 suck-bottlea1652 swill-pot1653 poter1657 potatora1660 old soaker1665 fuddle cap1666 old toast1668 bubber1669 toper1673 ale-toast1691 Bacchant1699 fuddler1699 swill-belly1699 tickle-pitcher1699 whetter1709 draughtsmanc1720 bender1728 drammer1740 dram-drinker1744 drammist1756 rum-bud1805 siper1805 Bacchanal1812 boozera1819 rum-sucker1819 soak1820 imp of the spigot1821 polyposist1821 wineskin1821 sack-guzzler1823 sitfast1828 swill-flagon1829 cup-man1834 swiper1836 Lushington1851 lushing-man1859 bloat1860 pottle pot1860 tipsificator1873 tipsifier1873 pegger1874 swizzler1876 bibulant1883 toss-cup1883 lusher1895 stew-bum1902 shicker1906 stiff1907 souse1915 booze-hound1926 stumblebum1932 tanker1932 lush-hound1935 lushy1944 lush-head1945 binge drinker1946 pisshead1946 hophead1948 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. C.v He and I neuer dranke togyder Yet I knowe many an ale stake. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ii. 119 If he be a drunken alestake, a ticktack tauerner. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. iii. 3 (1868) III. 641/1 No Ale-stake, tavern-haunter, that sits close at it. 1694 J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer i. xxv. 105 There were some that said that..Christ in the Gospel confounded Mary Magdalene with two Parables, likening her to an Alestake, and to a poor Woman whom an Emperor had married. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1396 |
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