ale-taster

== English == === Etymology === From ale +‎ taster. === Noun === ale-taster (plural ale-tasters) (obsolete) An officer appointed to test the ale and bread in a parish or town. ==== Synonyms ==== ale-conner === References === 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes