Purl, a beverage made by warming a pint of ale with a quarter of a pint of milk, and adding sugar and a wine-glassful of gin, rum, or brandy.
Purl
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 496
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Purl, a beverage made by warming a pint of ale with a quarter of a pint of milk, and adding sugar and a wine-glassful of gin, rum, or brandy.