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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bench in or before an ale-house.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bench in or before an alehouse.
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“The real facts would have been sufficient to excite uneasiness and indignation: but the real facts were lost amidst a crowd of wild rumours which flew without ceasing from coffeehouse to coffeehouse and from alebench to alebench, and became more wonderful and terrible at every stage of the progress.”
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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