Four-half
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Four-half is a noun meaning (slang, historical) A drink of half ale, half porter, originally costing fourpence a quart.
Meaning
(slang, historical) A drink of half ale, half porter, originally costing fourpence a quart.
Example Sentences
At nine o'clock that night Darkey was still consuming four-half, and relating certain adventures by sea which, he averred, had happened to himself.
[H]e regarded the whole world as her grave, and the tipsy sergeants in scarlet, the carter crying for a pint of four-half, and even the horses dipping their mild noses to the trough in the courtyard seemed to be defiling it by their happy, simple appetites.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include four, cupful, fourpennyworth, twopenny, fourpence, half-deal.
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