(n.) A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the defending of an alehouse team and André Villas-Boas was not exaggerating when he said everyone involved should feel "ashamed" by the performance.
(2) The alehouse takes its name from John Buchan’s 1915 novel, which was written and partly based in Broadstairs.
(3) We are turning everything back to basics, back to the way it was when it was a pub over 100 years ago.” • hovellingboatinn.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs 11.30am–9.30pm, Fri and Sat 11.30am-11pm, Sun noon-4pm The Conqueror Alehouse, Ramsgate Named after a two-funnelled paddle steamer that plied the route from Ramsgate to France at the beginning of the 20th century, the Conqueror’s walls are covered in black and white photos of the ship and its crew.
(4) And it means The Black Lion’s trading days, which date back to 1704 when it was first registered as an alehouse, are numbered.
(5) A quote from an anonymous author painted above the door lintel by owner Mike Beaumon could be the micropub motto: “Beer is the drink of men who think, and feel no fear or fetter, who do not drink to senseless sink, but drink to feel better.” • thefourcandles.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs and Sun 5pm-10.30pm, Fri and 5pm-11.30pm, lunchtimes Sat and Sun noon-3.30pm The Thirty-Nine Steps Alehouse, Broadstairs A few streets back from the Broadstairs seafront, this pub in a former pet shop was opened by local couple Kevin and Nicola Harding.
(6) It is astonishing to think that we have been open for less than three years, but in that time we have offered our customers choice of more than 1,500 different draught beers.” From its £4,000 bespoke bar crafted from elm, the Alehouse boasts 10 hand-pull real ale pumps, one dedicated to real cider, and sells 100 different bottled (mainly Belgian) beers.
(7) Camra judges hailed the quality and choice of the real ales on offer at the Sandford Park Alehouse, while singling out the “smart and stylish” pub, housed in a Grade-II listed Georgian building, as a model for the 21st century which also espouses traditional values.
(8) It has brought the whole village back together again, and been copied across the country.” • micropub.co.uk , open Tues-Sun noon-1.30pm, 6pm-9pm, closed Sun eves The Wheel Alehouse, Birchington Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alan Ross, a former fish and chip shop owner, has stocked 300 ales since he opened The Wheel Alehouse in March 2013.
Alewife
Definition:
(n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
(n.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mean input resistance values of isolated cells were as follows: goldfish, 12.5 M omega; alewife, 26.4 M omega; dogfish, 38.0 M omega.
(2) PCB residues exceeding the tolerance level of Health and Welfare Canada were found in the following: from Lake Saint Clair, smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) in 1975 and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) in 1971; from Lake Erie, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in 1970, smallmouth bass, alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), and gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) in 1971, and white bass in 1971 and 1976.
(3) In both alewife and dogfish, K+ conductance was highest in the endfoot; K+ conductance in the distal half of these cells ranged from 7.0 to 22.9% of the endfoot conductance.
(4) The distribution of potassium conductance across the surface of retinal glial (Müller) cells was determined in three species of fishes: two teleosts, the goldfish (Carassius auratus) and the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), and an elasmobranch, the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias).