A concoction of “hard liquor” with small lumps of ice in it. Sometimes HAILSTONE.
1835. It was agreed by the majority of the good people of Tallahassee, to go on drinking and stimulating with mint-julep, mint-sling, bitters, hail-stone, snow-storm, apple-toddy, punch, Tom and Jerry, egg-nogg—and to remain dram-drinkers and tipplers, if not absolute drunkards, in spite of the machinations of the Temperance men.—C. J. Latrobe, ‘The Rambler in North America,’ ii. 51–2 (N.Y.).
1838. They are supposed to entertain an especial abhorrence of the prevailing temperance fanaticism; and, as a matter of conscience, enter a daily protest against it, by sipping ‘mint-julaps’ before breakfast, ‘hail-storms’ at dinner, and ‘old Monongahela’ at night.—B. Drake, ‘Tales and Sketches,’ p. 27 (Cincinn.).
1839. I stepped boldly in, and going to the bar, demanded of a dapper personage who stood therein and rested for a moment from the labour of compounding slings and hailstones, by throwing his elbows on the bar, and his chin into his hands, in which position he very lazily and complacently regarded the groups of customers scattered about the room—if I could have lodgings.—R. M. Bird, ‘Robin Day,’ i. 128.
1847. May I never drink a hail-storm again, as the inside of an iceberg, and a damned deal cooler, as I take it.—J. K. Paulding, ‘American Comedies,’ p. 206 (Phila.).
