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ale

eɪl
WordNet
Interesting fact
Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should. When they cut the fish, fishermen found a full of bottle of ale inside it
  1. (n) ale
    a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned
  1. Ale
    A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales .", "On ember eves and holy ales ."
  2. Ale
    An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
  1. (n) ale
    A light-colored beer, made from malt which is dried at a low heat. See beer. Pale ale is made from the palest or lightest-colored malt, the fermenting temperature being kept below 72° to prevent the formation of acetic acid.
  2. (n) ale
    An ale-drinking; a festival or merrymaking at which ale was the beverage drunk.
  3. (n) ale
    A brew of ale; as much ale as is brewed at one time.
  4. (n) ale
    An ale-house.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Ale
    āl a beverage made from an infusion of malt by fermentation: a festival, so called from the liquor drunk
Quotations
George Farquhar
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
George Farquhar
A. E. Housman
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman
Sir Walter Scott
'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
Sir Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
William Shakespeare
A. E. Housman
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. Housman
Idioms

Adam's ale - (dated, humorous) water

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. ealu, akin to Icel., Sw., and Dan. öl, Lith. alus, a kind of beer, OSlav. olŭ, beer. Cf. Ir. ol, drink, drinking

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. alu; Ice. öl.

Usage in the news

Marley's Mission board of directors announced that last weekend's Backyard Ale House Hope Chest Auction was a "tremendous success" for the organization. thetimes-tribune.com

Nighthawk 's Kitchen night at Ale House. blog.timesunion.com

Christian Noe, chef-owner of the catering company Nighthawk 's Kitchen and two-time winner of the Table Hopping Mac-n-Cheese Bowl, will be the guest chef at The Ale House in Troy on Tuesday. blog.timesunion.com

Homemade Ginger Ale at Sky Bar. tucsonweekly.com

Mode?s Bum Steer Rack of Lamb/Sierra Nevada Northern Hemisphere Harvest Ale. northernexpress.com

Alexander Keith's Nova Scotia Style Brown Ale. latimes.com

The Homebrewer's Brain – Nut Brown Ale. blog.seattlepi.com

If you are looking for some big taste from a small town in Upstate, NY, then look no further than the famous Ubu Ale from the Lake Placid Brewery. q103albany.com

Local 5 Pale Ale released by Pikes Peak Brewing Company. fox21news.com

An exciting Monday for a local brewery and the Colorado Springs Professional Fire Fighters, as they tapped a new beer, the Local 5 Pale Ale . fox21news.com

Praise Jesus and pour me a good pale ale . post-gazette.com

Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale . columbusalive.com

Duck-Rabbit American Black Pale Ale . independentmail.com

Deschutes Brewery's Northwest pale ale wins title for second time. bendbulletin.com

Bell's to release Midwestern Pale Ale featuring new label, Michigan-grown barley. mlive.com

Usage in scientific papers

Rather the complex structure of the ALE fiber varies over the points on the base P1 .
Geometric Construction of N=2 Gauge Theories

We have applied the grid rezoning described above to our MMA magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code GRAALE [?] based on the ALE discretization [?].
Adaptive Multi-Dimensional Particle In Cell

Metode şi tehnici ale managementului operaţional al producţiei, Ed.
Informatics Issues Used in the Production Dashboard

Nic00] O. Nicolescu – Sisteme, metode şi tehnici manageriale ale organizaţiei, Ed.
Informatics Issues Used in the Production Dashboard

Moreover, adaptive Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approaches may be worth the development effort.
Compact binary mergers: an astrophysical perspective

Usage in literature

A marked difference in loss in solids is shown, however, when we compare the beers with the ales. "A Study Of American Beers and Ales" by L.M. Tolman

After spending several hours at the public-house I departed, not forgetting to pay for the two bottles of ale. "The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'" by George Borrow

Come warm thee with this cup of ale. "Tales of a Wayside Inn" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Just after I had settled myself, the flower of chivalry came in and ordered ale. "A Cathedral Courtship" by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Aw, Caesar's wonderful religious, but there's never much lavings of ale with him. "The Manxman A Novel - 1895" by Hall Caine

I'll send the wench into thee with some ale and venison. "Sea-Dogs All!" by Tom Bevan

They brew ale and prepare a feast (119-516). "Kalevala, Volume I (of 2)" by Anonymous

Christmas, however, for the fortunate is made warm with pudding, ale, and spiced beef. "The Bertrams" by Anthony Trollope

Beside her glass of stout and ale, she looked a little less prim and defiant. "A Poor Man's House" by Stephen Sydney Reynolds

A Januar' haddock, a Februar' bannock, and a March pint o' ale. "The Proverbs of Scotland" by Alexander Hislop

Usage in poetry
"O ramii, ramii la mine,
Te iubesc atât de mult!
Ale tale doruri toate
Numai eu stiu se l-ascult;
I followe the plough tayle,
Wythe a long jubb of ale.
Botte of the Maydens, oh!
Itte lacketh notte to telle;
Gie me a pipe to smook at neet,
A pint o' hooam-brew'd ale,
A faithful dog 'at runs to meet
Me wi a waggin tail.
When the scheref was on-slepe
Dronken of wine and ale,
Litul Johne and Moche for sothe
Toke the way vnto the jale.
They filled in wyne, and made him glad,
Vnder the levys smale,
And zete pastes of venysone,
That gode was with ale.
This seemed to cool him down a bit;
He finished off the ale,
And to the crowd around the bar
He told his awful tale.