"Oil as spiritous drink?

[Wilson Gray]

You mean "oil" as in "ignorant-oil" = alcoholic beverage? HDAS has 1917.

-Wilson

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> When does "oil" as spiritous drink (by itself, not as "oil of
> barley", etc.) appear?  I couldn't locate this sense in OED2.
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> Joel
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