Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drunkard; a swill-pot.
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Examples
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I could have wept when I thought how my purse and my swill-tub had been emptied to keep such puny monstrosities in the land of the living.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Various
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The authorities, however, did not allow the prisoners more than a pint: -- no matter whether it was thick or thin, no matter whether there was only one ounce of meal in it, back to the cook-house and the swill-tub the surplus must go.
Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous
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He can memorise at sight all the revolting contents of a swill-tub.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 Various
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βIt would only have gone into the swill-tub for the pigs,β said the boy in an almost inaudible voice.
When Last I Died Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1941
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Even peace, they say, may be bought too dear, and what shall it profit a people if it gain a swill-tub of comforts and lose its own soul?
Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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"Good sir, the swill-tub is open," cried another, mocking me.
In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891
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He is a walking barrel, a living drain-pipe, a moving swill-tub.
Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884
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Westarwood, as excrements rather than true Dutch, or a grain-tub or swill-tub for some brave brewers and bores, that embrued with nobler blood than themselves, prefer their brutish passions to God's glory, religion, and public peace let it be no imputation to the nation, which
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a walking barrel, a living drain-pipe, a moving swill-tub.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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Th 'idea ov a chap fallin' up to 'th' middle in a swill-tub! "
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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