"ale-stake" meaning in English

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      "form": "ale-stakes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "alestake"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, John Bickerdyke, The curiosities of ale & beer: an entertaining history, page 108:",
          "text": "No one was permitted to brew ale so long as any church-ale lasted, nor so long as the keeper of the park had any to sell, nor at any time without licence of the lord or court ; nor to sell without a sign, or, during the fair, without an ale-stake hung out, nor to ask a higher price for ale than that fixed by the jury of assize, nor to lower the quality below what the ale-tasters approved, nor to sell at times of Divine service, nor after nine o'clock at night, nor to sell at all without entering into a bond for ₤10, with a surety of ₤5, to keep orderly houses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake, page 53:",
          "text": "If you ran a public drinking house, you were required to have an ale-stake to show that you were conducting a business where ale was being brewed for sale.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ian Spencer Hornsey, A History of Beer and Brewing, page 286:",
          "text": "This was effected by the brewer putting an ale-stake outside of his establishment, with a branch or bush attached to the end of it (Figure 6.1).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of alestake"
      ],
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  "word": "ale-stake"
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      "form": "ale-stakes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "alestake"
        }
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          "ref": "1889, John Bickerdyke, The curiosities of ale & beer: an entertaining history, page 108:",
          "text": "No one was permitted to brew ale so long as any church-ale lasted, nor so long as the keeper of the park had any to sell, nor at any time without licence of the lord or court ; nor to sell without a sign, or, during the fair, without an ale-stake hung out, nor to ask a higher price for ale than that fixed by the jury of assize, nor to lower the quality below what the ale-tasters approved, nor to sell at times of Divine service, nor after nine o'clock at night, nor to sell at all without entering into a bond for ₤10, with a surety of ₤5, to keep orderly houses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake, page 53:",
          "text": "If you ran a public drinking house, you were required to have an ale-stake to show that you were conducting a business where ale was being brewed for sale.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ian Spencer Hornsey, A History of Beer and Brewing, page 286:",
          "text": "This was effected by the brewer putting an ale-stake outside of his establishment, with a branch or bush attached to the end of it (Figure 6.1).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of alestake"
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