lamb-ale

noun

A feast at the time of lamb-shearing.

Meanings

nounlamb-ale (plural lamb-ales)

plural lamb-ales

  1. historicalA feast at the time of lamb-shearing.

    Lamb-ales are still maintained at Kirtlington, Oxfordshire, for an annual feast at lamb-shearing.

    1914, Edmund Atwil Wasson, Religion and Drink, page 161
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