"ale pole" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ale poles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ale pole (plural ale poles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "alepole"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954, Brewing Review - Volume 68, Issue 2, page 13",
          "text": "The next step was a carved or painted effigy of an animal or bird, such as a swan, which was fixed in a hoop and hung at the end of the ale pole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Clifford William Dugmore, The Mass and the English Reformers, page 104",
          "text": "The ale pole is not merely a signification that it is a good thing to drink ale: it is more than a witness to the fact that ale was brewed fifteen hundred years ago.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Kirstin Olsen, All Things Shakespeare: A-I, page 5",
          "text": "A common kind of alehouse sign — not a \"brand name\" like the Sun and Moon (which existed in Aldersgate, London, in Shakespeare's day), but a generic sign identifying the type of business conducted within — was an \"ale pole.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of alepole"
      ],
      "id": "en-ale_pole-en-noun-ZtMnIopk",
      "links": [
        [
          "alepole",
          "alepole#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ale pole"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ale poles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ale pole (plural ale poles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "alepole"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954, Brewing Review - Volume 68, Issue 2, page 13",
          "text": "The next step was a carved or painted effigy of an animal or bird, such as a swan, which was fixed in a hoop and hung at the end of the ale pole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Clifford William Dugmore, The Mass and the English Reformers, page 104",
          "text": "The ale pole is not merely a signification that it is a good thing to drink ale: it is more than a witness to the fact that ale was brewed fifteen hundred years ago.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Kirstin Olsen, All Things Shakespeare: A-I, page 5",
          "text": "A common kind of alehouse sign — not a \"brand name\" like the Sun and Moon (which existed in Aldersgate, London, in Shakespeare's day), but a generic sign identifying the type of business conducted within — was an \"ale pole.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of alepole"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "alepole",
          "alepole#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ale pole"
}