Citations:ale


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the first boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort.
 * See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps — often but old bottles and vials, though — to the copper cooler at the try-works, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat.