tiswin

It was irksome to have to give up some of their old habits, such as tiswin drunks and wife-beating.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

The census taker at San Carlos in 1880 thought Geronimo a lazy, indolent creature, who spent his time in gambling, with an occasional ‘tiswin’ drunk.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

The census taker at San Carlos in 1880 thought Geronimo a lazy, indolent creature, who spent his time in gambling, with an occasional ‘tiswin’ drunk.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Apparently the only native intoxicant was tiswin, a sort of mild beer fermented from corn by the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

How fearlessly he had stepped into the midst of that half-frenzied sextette, _tiswin_ drunk, and disarmed Kwonagietah and two of his fellow-revelers!

An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Charles King 1888

He turned his mare loose, and proceeded on foot to the _tiswin_ camp, where he heard later that the old woman had been shot and the girl 'lifted.'

Crooked Trails Frederic Remington 1885

They ran down one of my own scouts in a _tiswin_ [An intoxicating beverage made of corn] camp, where he was carousing with other drinkers.

Crooked Trails Frederic Remington 1885