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that is, drinking gratis. At one time, all porters and carmen calling at Freeman’s Quay, near London Bridge, had a pot of beer given them gratis.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.