(Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).
c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), ''Child's Ballads, Number 68: "Young Hunting"'',
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(Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
: She has birld in him Young Hunting / The good ale and the beer, / Till he was as fou drunken / As any wild-wood steer.
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