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Go of Gin.

A quartern. In the Queen’s Head, Covent Garden, spirits used to be served in quarterns, neat—water ad libitum. (Compare Stirrup Cup.)

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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.

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