aletaster
/ˈeɪlˌteɪstə/noun
An officer appointed to test the ale brewed (and sometimes the bread baked) in a particular area.
- The office still exists (or has been revived) in a number of English towns and villages, on a largely ceremonial basis..
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Acts of Parliament of Scotland. From ale + taster.
- go the round (or rounds)
- go the way of all flesh
- go the whole hog
- Gothic
- Gothically
- Gothicism
- Gothicize
- Gothick
- Gothic novel
- Gothic Revival
- Gothic Revivalist
- go through
- go through fire (and water)
- go through the motions
- go through the roof
- go through with
- Gotland
- go to!
- go to arbitration
- go-to-bed-at-noon
- go to court
- go to earth
- go to ground
- go to hell
- go to hell in a handbasket