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four-ales

four-ales is the plural of four-ale.

Meaning of four-ale

Noun

four-ale (countable and uncountable, plural four-ales)

  1. (obsolete) A cheap ale, sold at fourpence per quart
    • I ain't going to have him a-coming here any more asking me to go for his dirty pots of four-ale and screws of tobacco[…]1867, “Bill Bank's Day Out”, in Andrew Halliday, editor, The Savage-Club Papers, page 217

Questions about four-ales

What is four-ales the plural of?
Four-ales is the plural of four-ale.

Words near four-ales in the dictionary

  1. four winds hats
  2. four-acceleration
  3. four-accelerations
  4. four-ale
  5. four-ale bar
  6. four-ales
  7. four-and-nine
  8. four-and-nines
  9. four-and-twenty
  10. four-bagger
  11. four-baggers

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