duffifie
To lay a bottle on its side for some time, after its contents have been poured out, that it may be completely drained of the few drops remaining. Elsewhere, one is said to 'make the bottle confess.' Aberdeen.
     -John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808

five-finger-tied
Tied by all the fingers of the hand.
     -Daniel Lyons's Dictionary of the English Language, 1897.
Exaggerated expression for "tied very securely.
     -C. T. Onion's Oxford Shakespeare Glossary, 1911

Choosing Day
On the first Monday in December each year, amid much ceremony and splendor, a "Deputy of the Port Liberty of Brightlingsea, a Limb of Sandwich" is elected in Brightlingsea, ESSEX [big, bold, all-caps mine -s]. His duties include protecting the mayor against "disloyalty or treachery" ... The "limb" in his job title refers to a once-vital arm of defence provided by the Cinque Ports of southern England.
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Last Call for Prohibition
On this date in 1933, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages nationwide, was officially repealed. Without providing recipes, James Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms (1877) listed the colorful names of more than 130 alcoholic drinks available in nineteenth-century American saloons. These included Moral Suasion, Bug Juice, Turpentine Whiskey, Bust Head, Split Ticket, Bald Face, Sauterne Cobbler, Deadbeat, Stone Wall, Fiscal Agent, Racehorse Julep, Phlegm Cutter, Polk and Dallas, and Epicure's Punch. Others were Poor Man's Punch, 7th Regiment Punch, Shambro, IOU, Snap Neck, Stagger Juice, Chain Lightning, Pig and Whistle, Switchel Flip, and Virginia fancy. Bartlett offered minimal speculation as to their places of origin but did note that "very few of them are English."