Green’s Dictionary of Slang

stolen a manchet out of the brewer’s basket phr.

[SE manchet, a small loaf or roll made from the finest wheat flour]

tipsy.

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[US]B. Franklin ‘Drinkers Dict.’ in Pennsylvania Gazette 6 Jan. in AS XII:2 90: They come to be well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK. [...] Has stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket.