[f. BEER sb.1] intr. To drink or indulge in beer. (colloq. and humorous.)
1780–6. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Odes R. Acad., Wks. 1794, I. 105. He surely had been brandying it, or beering.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 242. A cart and a waggon watering (it would be more correct, perhaps, to say beering) at the Rose.
