ale pole

English

Noun

ale pole (plural ale poles)

1. Alternative form of alepole
   • 1954, Brewing Review - Volume 68, Issue 2, page 13:

     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.

   • 1958, Clifford William Dugmore, The Mass and the English Reformers, page 104:

     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.

   • 2002, Kirstin Olsen, All Things Shakespeare: A-I, page 5:

     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."