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Webster 1828 Edition
Ale-conner
A'LE-CONNER
,Noun.
An officer in London, whose business is to inspect the measures used in public houses, to prevent frauds in selling liquors. four of these are chosen annually by the livery men, in common hall, on midsummer's day.
Definition 2024
ale-conner
ale-conner
See also: aleconner
English
Noun
ale-conner (plural ale-conners)
- ale-taster (obsolete)
References
- 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes