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SOLWAY WATERS, n. comb. A jocular name for smuggled brandy, the Solway Firth being notorious for smuggling activities with the Isle of Man in the 18th-c.sm.Sc. 1922 R. W. Mackenna Flower o' the Heather xxx.:
They produced a bottle o' “Solway waters”.
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