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单词 to be in the gun
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to be in the gun
8. slang and dialect. A flagon (of ale). to be in the gun (see quot. 1785.) [Compare gawn n.] Perhaps Obsolete.
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1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 23 A Gun, a great flagon of Ale sold for 3d. or 4d.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 469 Cap: Powell..invited me on board,..where we had a good dinner, of English pouderd beefe & other good meate, with store of Wine, & great Gunns, as the manner is.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Gun In the Gun, Drunk.
1729 Theobald in Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. (1817) II. 246 I think there is a vehicle in the University, which they call a ‘Gun of Ale’.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) He's In the Gun, he is drunk, perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities.
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