Aleyard
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Historical Examples
“I’ll bet you a guinea I’ve drunk better,” said I, with the aleyard at my lips.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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a son of Poseidon who, with his brother Dercynus, was killed by Hercules while attempting to steal the cattle that Hercules had taken from Geryon.