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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An allowance of ale claimed as a perquisite by a blacksmith on the first shoeing of a horse.
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“I might have ridden him from the day on which the blacksmith drank his colt-ale, for we understood each other exactly, and I was as comfortable on his back as in my bed at the”
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Drinky~time, or That Most Happy of Hours
impairement! oh lugubrious libations of unenviable inebriation
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missanthropist Ale claimed as a perquisite by the blacksmith on shoeing a horse for the first time. To shoe the colt is also a quaint expression of demanding a contribution on his first introduction to any office or employment.
William Carr, Dialect of Craven, 1828 Feb 4, 2009