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clerk-ale

noun

Definitions

  1. A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.

    • That ALE is festival, appears from its sense in composition; as, amongst others, in the words Lecet-ale, Lamb-ale, Whitson-ale, Clerk-ale, and Church-ale

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