four-ale
noun1
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:
- […] some of the mixture known to the working-man as "four ale," and obtained in the same locality as the porter.1888 October 13, “Adulteration”, in texts Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, volume 66, number 1720, page 435:
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis, Obsolete Ellipsis of four-ale bar.