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Hawick gill
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Scots
Etymology
From sco Hawick gill.
Noun
Hawick gills
A serving of an alcoholic beverage equal to half a sco mutchkin or about half an Imperial pint.
sco c. 1740 Allan Ramsay (poet) Allan Ramsay Andrew and his Cuttie Gun Blythe, blythe, blythe was she / Blythe was she, but and ben, / And weel she loo’ed a Hawick gill / And leuch to see a tappit hen.
References
“Hawick” in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh