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alee

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. (adv) alee
    on or toward the lee "put the helm alee"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned
  1. Alee
    (Naut) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.
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. alee
    Nautical, on or toward the lee side of a ship or boat, that is, the sheltered side, on which the wind does not strike; away from the wind: opposed to aweather (which see). The helm of a ship is said to be alee when the tiller is pushed close to the lee side, causing the rudder to move in the opposite direction, and thus bringing the ship's head into the wind. In cases where a steering-wheel is used, the same effect is produced by turning the wheel toward the wind.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adv) Alee
    a-lē′ on the lee-side.
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 Pref. a-, + lee,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary See Lee.

Usage in the news

Market Garden plans holiday ale tasting. ohio.com

Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland will hold a Holiday Ale Fest starting at 4 pm Dec 5. ohio.com

Market Garden Brewery to release Festivus Ale. ohio.com

That's when the brewery, which had opened in 1999, released Dale's Pale Ale in a can. ohio.com

We'll be serving rum, vodka, gin, wine, Guinness and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale CHEERS. kzfr.org

Deschutes Fresh-Hop Mirror Pond Pale Ale: Antidote to The Miasma . blog.seattlepi.com

She plans to concentrate on English style ales, which offer a wide spectrum for the palate. dailymail.com

Scott Shaw, The Plain Dealer Andy Tveekrem quaffs a Duvel Belgian Ale at the spot where he plans to open a new brewery in the summer. cleveland.com

Syracuse's Middle Ages Brewing Co. Marks its 17th anniversary Aug 5 with a celebration that includes the release of this year's anniversary beer, a "little" IPA, or India pale ale. blog.syracuse.com

Miso and Ale, a pop-up restaurant that started earlier this year, is young and cheeky. honolulumagazine.com

One of his favorite beers was a schwarzbier, or black beer, made with ale yeast instead of the standard lager yeast. nola.com

Strong ales with a strong tradition. ashingtonpost.com

Wraps up its Movable Yeast series with a twist on its India Pale Ale. blog.chron.com

India Pale Ale , Avery Brewing Company, Boulder. 5280.com

We've already declared our love for Odell's India Pale Ale : The tastiest IPA in the state, as far as we're concerned. 5280.com

Usage in scientific papers

The metrics (3.3) are not ALE but are “asymptotically locally flat” (ALF).
Solutions Of Four-Dimensional Field Theories Via M Theory

By using ALE spaces instead of K 3, one can find such interacting theories for each Ak or Dk singularity.
String Duality and Novel Theories without Gravity

This approach was used by Douglas and Moore to study the motion of 0-branes on spaces of the form C2/Zk ; the authors showed that on such spaces the moduli space of 0-brane configurations is modified quantum mechanically to correspond to smooth ALE spaces.
Lectures on D-branes, Gauge Theory and M(atrices)

Note that in the correspondence between M-theory 5-branes and ALE backgrounds in Type II B string theory is realized as three dimensional mirror symmetry.
On the Brane Configuration of $N=(4,4)$ 2D supersymmetric gauge theory

This model is exactly the theory of D 1-brane probe of Type II B string theory on the ALE space.
On the Brane Configuration of $N=(4,4)$ 2D supersymmetric gauge theory

Usage in literature

The English drank ale, the Dutch beer, the French and Spanish light wines, for every-day use. "Home Life in Colonial Days" by Alice Morse Earle

Make it with grape-verjuyce, common-verjuyce, stale beer, ale, butter, milk, white-wine, claret, or juyce of cherries. "The accomplisht cook" by Robert May

I took a draught of the ale, which I found excellent. "Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2)" by George Borrow

He got up nice game suppers, and treated his customers to ale, whiskey, and brandy. "Winning His Way" by Charles Carleton Coffin

Let's take a long walk and drink to our friendship in some good brown ale. "The New Land" by Elma Ehrlich Levinger

You dlinkee ale some-tim? "The Gypsies" by Charles G. Leland

A table was set out in one corner, with meat and bread, wine and ale. "The Billow and the Rock" by Harriet Martineau

He wanted some more ale, and he was tired of amusing himself with Cissy. "The King's Daughters" by Emily Sarah Holt

Bishops, and clergymen too, were fond of going about in gay clothes of all colours, playing at games, and even drinking at ale-houses. "Our Little Lady" by Emily Sarah Holt

She could not help being glad that Oddo renewed his request to be allowed to carry out Nipen's cake and ale. "Feats on the Fiord" by Harriet Martineau

Usage in poetry
In tippling was his whole delight,
Each sign-post barr'd his way;
He spent in muddy ale at night
The wages of the day.
"I will marry! write that threat
In the ink I daily waste:
Marry--pay each College debt--
College Ale no more will taste.
"But wha will bake my bridal bread,
Or brew my bridal ale?
And wha will welcome my brisk bride,
That I bring oer the dale?"
To the bar of a thousand ales
From the ship came a conjuring man
A Celanese, from over the seas
By the name of Hugh Pi Kan.
"Mother, I want to learn to swim."
"Oh, have a care, my daughter!
I fear this ultra-modern whim
To lave in ale and porter."
As they were drinking ale and wine
Within Kyng Estmeres halle:
"When will ye marry a wyfe, brother,
A wyfe to gladd us all?"