Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North America, a mixture of spruce beer, rum, and sugar, was so called. The 17th regiment had a society called the Swizzle Club, at Ticonderoga, A. D. 1760.
·noun Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. II. Swizzle ·vt To <<Drink>>; to <<Swill>>. ...
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