Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Queen’s ale
or King’s ale, subs. phr. (old).—The strongest ale brewed.
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1574. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow (1876), I. 25. That thair be na derare aill sauld nor sax penneis the pynt, and that the samyn be KINGIS AILL and werraye guid.
