a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. vii. 5 They haue made him drinke Almes drinke . View more context for this quotation
1906 J. A. de Rothschild iii. 123 Those sordid beggars..whose horn, that alms-drink ought to fill, was most often dry.
1911 F. W. Hackwood v. 71 Alms-drink was the name given to the leavings in the drinking-cups which were all collected and served out to the poor and needy.