"Oil as spiritous drink?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat May 17 02:50:05 UTC 2008


When does "oil" as spiritous drink (by itself, not as "oil of
barley", etc.) appear?  I couldn't locate this sense in OED2.

Joel

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