i: Bishop
A concoction of port wine mulled with sugar and a roasted orange or lemon: "Spicy bishop; drink divine". [Coleridge, Poems 1801]
'To bishop' is also to file down and tamper with the teeth of a horse, to make him appear younger. Later, it also came to mean 'to kill by drowning', after Bishop the murderer who drowned a boy in Bethnal Green in 1831; in order to sell his body for dissection.
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