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[US] T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 368: We wended our way up town, and called into the first open ‘drinkery’.
at drinkery, n.
[US] T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 249: The burra’s milk [...] to which add, after boiling it long enough to take off the ‘long-eared’ smell, two quarts of ass’s milk.
at longears, n.
[US] T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 272: An ‘old soldier’ in this sense is not the absolute war-worn veteran [...] but a chew of tobacco, which has from time to time undergone mastication from friend to friend.
at old soldier, n.
[US] T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 321: In popped the corporal [...] with a shoemaker’s awl in his hand, and, not waiting for an explanation, ran furiously at Ike, [...] and ‘socked’ it in the thick of his back ‘smack up to the handle’.
at sock, v.1
[US] T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 279: He was proficient in raising a chew of tobacco, and sung himself into many a glass of vino.
at vino, n.
[US] T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 276: The sight of a picayune, and the good creature never failed to wet their whistles.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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