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

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.