a refreshment between meals, used by ploughmen, who eat a bit of bread and cheese and drink some beer when they come out of the fields, at ten in the morning and six in the evening. Kent.
·noun An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. II. Drinking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Drink>>. III. D...
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·noun A drinking between meals. ...