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four ale

four ale is the alternative form 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

Forms of four ale

pluralfour ales

Questions about four ale

What is four ale the alternative form of?
Four ale is the alternative form of four-ale.

Words near four ale in the dictionary

  1. FOUP
  2. FOUPs
  3. Fouquereuil
  4. fouquieriaceous
  5. four
  6. four ale
  7. four ales
  8. four and twenty
  9. Four Ashes
  10. Four Books and Five Classics
  11. four by two

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