scotale

English

Alternative forms

• scotal

Etymology

From Scot +‎ ale.

Noun

scotale (plural scotales)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor for fear of his displeasure.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scotale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• talcose, to scale, ale-cost, lactose, coletas, locates, alecost, Lacoste, Castelo, scatole, to-scale