单词 | arrack |
释义 | arrackn. A name applied in Eastern countries to any spirituous liquor of native manufacture; especially, that distilled from the fermented sap of the coco-palm, or from rice and sugar, fermented with the coco-nut juice. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > other distilled liquor > [noun] > liquor from palm sap rack1602 arrack1625 fool rack1698 tuba1704 vino1901 1516 Barbosa Trav. transl. Ld. Stanley (Hakl.) 59 They bring cocoa-nuts, huraca (which is something to drink).] 1625 E. Scott Disc. Java in Purchas Pilgrimes I. iii. iv. §iv. 173 Kept a victualing house, and brewed Aracke. 1694 T. R. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 277 A sort of Jaundise, contracted by the frequent drinking of Arak or Rack. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 293 Arack is distill'd also from Rice, and other things. 1782 J. Trumbull MʽFingal (new ed.) iv. 79 And well invoked with punch of arrack, Hold converse sweet in tent or barrack. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 233/1 Arack or Arrac. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. ii. 127 Toddy drawers..ascending the [coco-nut] trees in quest of the sap drawn from the spathes of the unopened flowers to be distilled into arrack. Compounds attributive. ΚΠ 1625 E. Scott Disc. Java in Purchas Pilgrimes I. ii. iv. §vi. 184 Draue them into a Racke-house. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xvii. 140 The arrack punch with which he treated them. 1808 Orient. Field Sports I. 88 The bad effects of these arrack shops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625 |
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