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eale

eale is the obsolete form of ale.

eale is the alternative form of yale.

Meaning of ale

Noun

ale (countable and uncountable, plural ales)

  1. A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
    Synonyms:
    yill
  2. (dated) A beer or beerlike drink made without hops.
  3. (UK, obsolete) A rural festival where ale is drunk.

See all 4 meanings of ale

Meaning of yale

Noun

yale (plural yales)

  1. A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goatlike four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
    Synonyms:
    centicore

See all 10 meanings of yale

Forms of eale

pluraleales

Questions about eale

What is eale the obsolete form of?
Eale is the obsolete form of ale.

Words near eale in the dictionary

  1. ealdorman
  2. ealdormanic
  3. ealdormanries
  4. ealdormanry
  5. ealdormen
  6. eale
  7. eales
  8. Ealey
  9. Ealeys
  10. Ealing
  11. Ealing comedy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eale (page history and authors); ale (page history and authors); yale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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