† ˈale-pole Obs.
[ale- 4.]
A pole or post set up as the sign of an ale-house; an ale-stake.
| 1533 Frith Answ. More (1829) 331 The alepole is not the ale itself which it doth signify or represent. 1587 Holinshed Chron. II. 22/2 Booths, and alepoles are pitched at Saint James his gate. 1616 J. Deacon Tobacco Tort. 57 The hungry Hostesses ale-pole. |