ale-draper

Your correspondent D. asks whether the word _ale-draper_ was ever in "good use."

Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Well, I get mee a wife; with her a little money; when we are married, seeke a house we must; no other occupation have I but to be an _ale-draper_. "

Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 Various

How rarely we meet with an ale-draper who is also a gentleman. "

If I Were King Justin McCarthy 1871