quaff

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QU'AFF, verb transitive To drink; to swallow in large draughts. He quaffs the muscadel. They in communion sweet quaff immortality and joy. QU'AFF, verb intransitive To drink largely or luxuriously.
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