Meaning of four-half | Babel Free

Definitions

A drink of half ale, half porter, originally costing fourpence a quart.

historical, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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