ale-draper

English

Noun

ale-draper (plural ale-drapers)

(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.

Derived terms

ale-drapery

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.