资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Alestake \Ale"stake\, n.
   A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an
   alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly
   suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a ``bush.'' [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.