To discuss a bottle. To drink one with a friend. Same as “erush” or “crack a bottle.” (Discuss is the Latindis-quatio; French, casser. The Latinquassaʹrĕ vasa is to break a drinking-vessel.)
“Weall … . drew round the table, an austere silence prevailing, while we discussed our meal.”—E. Brontē: Wuthering Heights, chap. ii.
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