usquebaugh

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You may choose, my master, if you are so nice," replied Ralph Fisher; "you may be glad to smell a peat-fire, and usquebaugh too, if you journey long in the fashion you propose.

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

But the interior of her hut was arranged for their reception, the usquebaugh was brewed or distilled in a larger quantity than it could have been supposed one lone woman could have made ready.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir

I have just received your letter of the 2nd, with the usquebaugh, for which I am much obliged to you.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

Why, was it the usquebaugh that killed her?

From The Beaux-Stratagem by Farquhar, George

Before the 18th century usquebaugh is the regular form.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest