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alebench

noun

Etymology

From ale + bench.

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. inherited from *bankiz✻ — “bench”
  3. inherited from *banki✻
  4. inherited from benċ — “bench”
  5. inherited from bench
  6. compounded as alebench — “ale + bench”

Definitions

  1. A bench at the front of an alehouse or inn where drinkers can sit.

    • VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
    • This man is for any company, and for any talk: as he talketh now with you, so will he talk when he is on the alebench ; and the more drink he hath in his crown, the more of these things he hath in his mouth.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA