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Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife.

When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less.

"Stengah," he observed, reaching for the bottle.

"Tiga stengah," he cried after each splash and pause, gathering the line busily for another cast.

"Tiga stengah," which means three fathom and a half.