1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 160 I take it to be the Gur of the Adeptists, i.e. the matter of Metalls before it be coagulated into a Metallic form... [I]t might be the Gur of Lead.

1739 Bromell Mineralogia vi. 6 En sådan silfwahaltig hwit bergmiölk eller gur metallicum utflöt åhr 1696.]

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Gur, a word used to express a fluid matter looking like milk, but reduced sometimes, by evaporation, to the consistence of honey, and appearing in form of a white sediment. It always contains more or less silver, and is common in the mines of Sweden, and in some other places.

1834 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara III. v. 253 From extensive plantations of cane, ‘goor’, a coarse kind of sugar, is produced.

1872 E. Braddon Life in India ii. 28 Combinations of sugar, ghoor (raw sugar with the molasses in it) curds and ghee.

1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 59 It is..then mixed with water, being eaten with gur, curds, &c.

1934 M. L. Darling Wisdom & Waste in Punjab Village 26 Half a dozen figures were crushing cane... I stopped, and at once they uncovered a pan and brought me a handful of the warm gur beloved of horse and peasant.

1965 E. Linton World in Grain of Sand x. 173 The harvesting of sugar cane followed by its crude and simple processing into ‘gur’—the round brown unrefined sugar cakes.

1969 Femina (Bombay) 26 Dec. 57/2 Add a pinch of camphor and if desired grated gur (jaggery).