"four-ale" meaning in English

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      "form": "four-ales",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1867, “Bill Bank's Day Out”, in Andrew Halliday, editor, The Savage-Club Papers, page 217",
          "text": "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[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888 October 13, “Adulteration”, in texts Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, volume 66, number 1720, page 435",
          "text": "[…] 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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        "A cheap ale, sold at fourpence per quart"
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        "(obsolete) A cheap ale, sold at fourpence per quart"
      ],
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "four-ale bar"
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        "Ellipsis of four-ale bar."
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        "(obsolete) Ellipsis of four-ale bar."
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  "word": "four-ale"
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          "ref": "1867, “Bill Bank's Day Out”, in Andrew Halliday, editor, The Savage-Club Papers, page 217",
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        "(obsolete) A cheap ale, sold at fourpence per quart"
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        "(obsolete) Ellipsis of four-ale bar."
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