Meaning of four-ale | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cheap ale, sold at fourpence per quart
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. Ellipsis of four-ale bar.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“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[…]”

“[…] some of the mixture known to the working-man as "four ale," and obtained in the same locality as the porter.”

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