post-and-rail tea

British

noun

informal (in the 19th century) a coarse tea in which floating particles resembled a post-and-rail fence

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I didn't feel inclined for corned beef and damper, and post-and-rail tea.

From Joe Wilson and His Mates by Lawson, Henry

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