half-gill

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He was interrupted by more stamping at the door, and presently the party from the mansion-house entered, followed by the Indian himself. “There’s quart-pot, pint-pot. Mit-pint, Gill-pot, half-gill. nipperkin. And the brown bowl Here’s a health to the barley mow, My brave boys, Here’s a health to the barley mow.” Drinking Song.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers

A muttering was heard behind the curtains of the bed, sounding not unlike the Christian wish, that every drop the bloodhounds swallowed might prove poison to them; the host, however, whose humanity was less vindictive than that of his wife, hastened to the bar to comply with his guest's demand. The chief drank a half-gill of whisky at a draught, and then passed the glass to his neighbour.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846