alehouse

Converse of object

• keep: When not on ceremonial duty, many of the Oxford Waits kept alehouses which were great centers for popular music-making.
• become: Dating back to the 1700s, The Joiners Arms began life as a cottage, later becoming an alehouse.
• close: Worsley was extremely zealous in persecuting Royalists, closing alehouses and working to promote a godly reformation in his region.

Adjective modifier

• old: Stirling's Oldest Alehouse dating back to the 1600s situated just down from the Castle.
• small: As it turned out Matlock Bath's loss was Matlock's gain and the small alehouse profited at the expense of the grand hotel.
• large: By the mid-18th century larger alehouses were becoming common, while inns beside the major highways grew in grandeur in this coaching era.

Modifies a noun

keeper: One single man, a poor alehouse keeper, seemed disgusted, spoke a harmless word, and ran away with all speed.

Noun used with modifier

• village: One of the things Owen Rogers was accused of was spending too long in the village alehouse.
• century: Angel Artichoke High Street An 18th century alehouse which formerly stood on or about the site of No. 89, Bell Street, Reigate.