toper

If you knew a toper was to be offered as much free whisky as he could drink, you would be sure he would not come home sober.

"Let him alone," said an old toper; and Griffith remained a good hour with his head on the table.

He once challenged a noted English toper and gave him a glass a bottle; the victory was easily his, for he disposed of a dozen.

Out of the gray twilight a toper lurched up to the gate on which I leant, and, steadying himself, momentarily peered into my face.

"Any one would think you were a reformed toper, to hear you talk," he said, with a trace of a sneer.