liquor thief

A tube which is let down through the bung-hole of a cask and then closed, so as to withdraw liquid therefrom. It is usually closed at the top by the finger, but sometimes by a plug. A sampling-tube; a velinche. *11-quõr (quask), v. t . [LIQUOR, 8.] 1. To moisten, to wet, to fill with liquor. "Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink, Goodly and great he sails behind his link" Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel , ii. 461. 2. To grease, as with tallow or oil. "And cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored ." Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 117. 11-quõr-Içe, s. [LICORICE.]