tangle-legs

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He pottered round the inn of an evening and Saturday afternoons, doing odd jobs in the cellar with the barrels; for your true toping spirit loves to knock the hoops and to work about the cask, and carry the jugs in answer to the cry for some more 'tangle-legs' -- for thus they called the strong beer.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867
Sometimes when the 'tangle-legs' got up into their heads the labourers felt an inclination to resume the ancient practices of their fore-fathers.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867