Meaning of ale-knight | Babel Free

Definitions

A drinking companion.

obsolete

Examples

“Come⟳, all you brave wights, / That are dubbed ale-knights, / Now set⟳ out yourselves in sight; / And let⟳ them that crack / In the praises of sack, / Know⟳ malt is of mickle might.”

“Payne, for a long time, lived and worked alone in his filthy den; but towards the close⟳ of his career, he took in, as a fellow-labourer, an excellent workman named Weir. This man was a regularly 'dubbed ale-knight,' loved barley-wine to the full as much as his partner, and used to sing⟳: […]”

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