英语词汇“foot ale”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

foot ale n. regional (now historical) a drink of ale, or the cost of this, exacted as a footing (footing n. 10); (also more generally) any of various ceremonies or customs involving drinking ale.

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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. I^v Foot-ale, an old Custom amongst Miners, when a Man enters first into Work, to pay his first Days Wages for Ale.

1787 W. Hutton Courts of Requests 140 One, among many bad customs, is the foot-ale, practised by the lower class, which initiates the young beginner into the early habits of drinking.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) at Footing A stranger..will generally be asked to ‘stand his foot-ale’.

1912 D. Rorie Mining Folk of Fife 396 She was brought back until the mother got into bed again. Before leaving, the caller got ‘the fitale dram.’

1982 R. Dodsworth Glass & Glassmaking 27/2 One well known ploy was the ‘foot ale’, whereby gaffers extorted money from the apprentices on various pretexts to pay for their drink.

单词	foot ale
释义	> as lemmas foot ale foot ale n. regional (now historical) a drink of ale, or the cost of this, exacted as a footing (footing n. 10); (also more generally) any of various ceremonies or customs involving drinking ale. ΚΠ 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. I^v Foot-ale, an old Custom amongst Miners, when a Man enters first into Work, to pay his first Days Wages for Ale. 1787 W. Hutton Courts of Requests 140 One, among many bad customs, is the foot-ale, practised by the lower class, which initiates the young beginner into the early habits of drinking. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) at Footing A stranger..will generally be asked to ‘stand his foot-ale’. 1912 D. Rorie Mining Folk of Fife 396 She was brought back until the mother got into bed again. Before leaving, the caller got ‘the fitale dram.’ 1982 R. Dodsworth Glass & Glassmaking 27/2 One well known ploy was the ‘foot ale’, whereby gaffers extorted money from the apprentices on various pretexts to pay for their drink. extracted from footn.int. < as lemmas
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