1736 Canting Dictionary / T / THREE Threads [drink]
half common Ale, and half Stout or double Beer.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Three Threads in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).