Re: Revival & Gelobrom & Winchester

Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:12:16 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Terry King wrote:
> 2. A winchester is a bottle holding about two quarts, it looks like a smaller
> version of a demi-john but with no handles. Victorian recipes often gave
> winchester as an amount and the punters would complain that they did not know
> how much it contained ! As to the rifle, I can't remember if I saw the movie.

Terry, I seem to be playing your straight-person:

What's a demi-john?