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单词 gill tea
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gill tea
C1. attributive (in form gill), designating drinks made using Ground Ivy (cf. sense 3a), as gill ale, gill beer, gill tea. Now chiefly historical.
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1698 J. Floyer Treat. Asthma iv. 219 Bitters of the Deadnettle Class, Gill Beer, Gill Thea, sweetned with its own Syrup, or Powder of Motherwort mixed with Oxymel Scylliticum, Syrup of Horehound with Milk-water.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Gill-ale, Physic-ale.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella (2013) v. 31 I was forced to..dine for ten-pence upon gill-ale, bad broth, and three chops of mutton.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Gill-Ale, Ale, &c. where Ground-ivy or Gill is infused.
1737 G. Jones Lett. to Miss Bevan 527 Am now to confine my self to Gill Tea and few other simple things.
1889 Cent. Dict. Gill-beer, malt liquor medicated with the leaves of the gill or ground ivy.
1983 Orange Coast Oct. 78/3 The best way to take ground ivy is a Gill Tea.
1996 P. Sambrook Country House Brewing in Eng. iii. 144 Centuries after the use of hops had become usual, the dried leaves of ground ivy were used as an infusion added to flavour ‘gill ale’.
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