Ale

1. n. A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
2. n. An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.