subs. (old).—An unfair drinker: i.e., a man who, taking first pull at a tankard, does not draw breath till he has pretty well emptied the pot.
1896. Athenæum, 15 Aug., p. 168. Thirsty souls! there was no resisting it. Half-a-dozen old NORWICHERS, after a bout of this sort, would become as hilarious, and would dance as uproariously as half-a-dozen Egyptians, full of the barleywine of Memphis.
