Meaning of ale-draper | Babel Free

Definitions

An alehouse keeper or publican

obsolete

Examples

“No other occupation have I but to be an ale-draper.”

“(Burial of) Isaiah Clifton ale-draper .”

“Fieldhouse, W., the elder, Yeadon, Leeds, joiner, and ale draper, (sued with W. Fieldhouse the younger)”

“1911, Kathleen Schlesinger, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 : Barrel-organ Mr Thomas Brown relates that one Mr Stephens, a Poultry author, proposed to parliament for any one that should presume to keep an organ in a Publick House to be fined £20 and made incapable of being an ale-draper for the future.”

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