MANUFACTURE,
any Liquor made of the Fruits of English Growth, as Ale, Beer, Cyder, &c.
any Liquor made of the Fruits of English Growth, as Ale, Beer, Cyder, &c.
Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Manufacture in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).