Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Nale
subs. (old Scots’).—See quot.
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1808. JAMIESON, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, s.v. NALE. This, I suspect, is a cant term used as an abbreviation, an ale, for ‘an ale-house.’ I observe no similar word.
