English

Noun

ale-taster ‎(plural ale-tasters)

1. an officer appointed to test the ale and bread in a parish or town (obsolete)

Synonyms

ale-conner

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