Obs. [ALE- 4.] A pole or post set up as the sign of an ale-house; an ale-stake.
1533. Frith, Answ. More (1829), 331. The alepole is not the ale itself which it doth signify or represent.
1587. Holinshed, Chron., II. 22/2. Booths, and alepoles are pitched at Saint James his gate.
1616. J. Deacon, Tobacco Tort., 57. The hungry Hostesses ale-pole.
