Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brideale"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bride-ale \Bride"-ale`\, n. [See {Bridal}.]
A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See {Ale}.
The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And
drink enough, he need not fear his stake. --B. Jonson.
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