subs. phr. (old).—The stomach: see BASKET.
1760–61. SMOLLETT, Sir Launcelot Greaves, II., v. He ordered the waiter … to … bring along-side a short allowance of brandy or grog, that he might cant a slug [dram] into his BREAD-ROOM. Ibid., xvii. The waiter … returned with a quartern of brandy, which Crowe, snatching eagerly, started into his BREAD-ROOM at one cant.
