What is "swills"

Usage examples of "swills".

The landlord of the Sol's Arms, finding Little Swills so popular, commends him highly to the Jurymen and public.

The Coroner is to sit in the first-floor room at the Sol's Arms, where the Harmonic Meetings take place twice a week, and where the chair is filled by a gentleman of professional celebrity, faced by Little Swills, the comic vocalist, who hopes (according to the bill in the window) that his friends will rally round him, and support first-rate talent.

In the zenith of the evening, Little Swills says, Gentlemen, if you'll permit me, I'll attempt a short description of a scene of real life that came off here today.

He looks uneasy as Joe swills coffee from the flask and holds it upside down.