(thing) by Vulgar Tongue 1811 Thu May 19 2005 at 0:04:21
swizzle

Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North America, a mixture of spruce beer, rum, and sugar, was so called.

The 17th regiment had a society called the Swizzle Club, at Ticonderoga, A.D. 1760.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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