dram glass

noun

1. joey glass.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dram glass¹

First recorded in 1710–20

Example Sentences

A bottle of beer p. 271was also brought; so, after drinking one another’s healths round, with a tasting out of the dram glass, Cursecowl swashed the rest of the raw creature into the tankard, saying—“Now take your will o’t; there’s drink fit for a king; that’s real ‘Pap-in.’”

From Project Gutenberg

A bottle of beer was also brought; so, after drinking one another’s healths round, with a tasting out of the dram glass, Cursecowl swashed the rest of the raw creature into the tankard, saying,—“Now take your will o’t; there’s drink fit for a king; that’s real ‘Pap-in.’”

From Project Gutenberg

I had to use alcohol freely at nights; and might by now have become a drunkard, had I not been casually—or I must say, Providentially—directed to the common sense plan of measuring my whisky in a dram glass; so that the alcohol could not steal a march upon me.

From Project Gutenberg