rack-punch
[f. rack n.7 + punch.]
Punch made with arrack.
| 1713 Steele Guard. No. 143 ¶3 Rack-punch, quickned with brandy and gun-powder. 1752 Fielding Amelia Wks. 1775 X. 155 The governor..trumpeted forth the praises of his rack-punch. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair vi, He insisted upon having a bowl of rack punch; everybody had rack punch at Vauxhall. |