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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slender glass shaped like a horn that is about three feet tall and holds about three pints.
- noun The amount of liquid that a yard of ale can hold.
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qroqqa commented on the word yard of ale
Entered to record the fact that I have just heard someone say 'yard of ales' for what were being consumed last night. To me this is a straightforward, transparent syntactic combination with idiomatic meaning, but that speaker has lexicalized it more closely.
April 10, 2009
yarb commented on the word yard of ale
Presumably the speaker was hungover the next morning and consumed numerous cup of teas.
April 10, 2009
sionnach commented on the word yard of ale
Maybe they were dyslexic and had actually consumed a yarb of ale. Har-be-har-har!
April 10, 2009