"ale pole" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "alepole"
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.\"",
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  "word": "ale pole"
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          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        },
        {
          "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.\"",
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