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ale post en · NOUN
Meanings
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A post displaying a pub sign; an alestake.
I looked for the alepost of the Fighting Cock, and found none.
1991, Simone Zelitch, The Confession of Jack Straw, →ISBN:O honor, farre beyond a brazen shrine,
To sit with Tarleton on an ale post's signe
1808, Joseph Hall, Works:I believe it was the George the Something or other, although I feel sure that no monarch of any era would have felt at home in the neighbourhood or been gratified by the alepost's honourable mention of him.
1957, Alfred Edgar Coppard, It's Me, O Lord!:
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