[f. QUAFF v.] An act of quaffing, or the liquor quaffed; a deep draught.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 512/2. They thinke that a sermon costeth no more then a quaffe wil them.
1594. Greene & Lodge, Looking Gl., G.’s Wks. (Rtldg.), 141/2. Now Alvida begins her quaff, And drinks a full carouse unto her king.
1627–77. Feltham, Resolves, I. lxxxiv. 129. Proteas gaue him a quaff of two gallons.
1889. G. Gissing, Nether World, I. v. 97. Each guest having taken a quaff of ale.
