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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swill v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swilled p. pr. & vb. n. Swilling.]
 1. To wash; to drench. [Obs.]
 As fearfully as doth a galled rock
 O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
 Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.   --Shak.
 2.  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
    Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.   --Smollett.
 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink.
 I should be loth
 To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence
 Of such late wassailers.   --Milton.