clam-shell-full

Updated: June 12, 2025

But such as it was, no Scotsman of the time, had his rank been much higher than that of Glendinning, would have refused to share in it, especially as the pedlar produced, with a mysterious air, a tup's horn, which he carried slung from his shoulders, and which, when its contents were examined, produced to each party a clam-shell-full of excellent usquebaugh a liquor strange to Halbert, for the strong waters known in the south of Scotland came from France, and in fact such were but rarely used.

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery