ale-draper

plural ale-drapers

1. obsoleteAn alehouse keeper or publican

   (Burial of) Isaiah Clifton ale-draper .

   1785, Parish Register of Barmston, East Yorkshire

   3 more examples

   No other occupation have I but to be an ale-draper.

   1592, H. Chettle, Kind-harts Dreames

   Fieldhouse, W., the elder, Yeadon, Leeds, joiner, and ale draper, (sued with W. Fieldhouse the younger)

   1832, The Legal Examiner - Volume 2, page 26

   1911, Kathleen Schlesinger, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 : Barrel-organ Mr Thomas Brown relates that one Mr Stephens, a Poultry author, proposed to parliament for any one that should presume to keep an organ in a Publick House to be fined £20 and made incapable of being an ale-draper for the future.