Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Drink, liquor. · A long draught from a drink. · A person who drinks deeply. · A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff. · To suck. · To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
Unknown, mid 16th c. Perhaps connected with Old English swelgan (“to swallow”).
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- Cognate mentionswelganang · to swallow
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