ale-draper

English

Noun

ale-draper (plural ale-drapers)

  1. (obsolete) An alehouse keeper or publican
    • 1592, H. Chettle, Kind-harts Dreames:
      No other occupation have I but to be an ale-draper.
    • 1785, Parish Register of Barmston, East Yorkshire:
      (Burial of) Isaiah Clifton ale-draper .
    • 1832, The Legal Examiner - Volume 2, page 26:
      Fieldhouse, W., the elder, Yeadon, Leeds, joiner, and ale draper, (sued with W. Fieldhouse the younger)
    • 1911, Kathleen Schlesinger, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 : Barrel-organ
      Mr Thomas Brown relates that one Mr Stephens, a Poultry author, proposed to parliament for any one that should presume to keep an organ in a Publick House to be fined £20 and made incapable of being an ale-draper for the future.

References

[Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Ale-draper”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.

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