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  • (noun/adjective) - At the height of mirth and jollity, the cock, or spigot, being removed and laid on the hoop, and the barrel of ale stumed, as they say in Staffordshire; that is, drunk out without intermission.

    --Elisha Coles' English Dictionary, 1713

    January 14, 2018