The carling-groat

14 days before Easter · Northern England

No longer kept

At carling time a northern drinker’s carling-groat was the money he spent at the public-house, and in return the landlord set out the carlings free. Brockett recorded the word alongside the grey peas eaten on Carling Sunday.

a sum spent in drink at a public-house; the landlord providing his guests with the carlings gratis.

From Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, p. 62. Read the original

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