单词 | poteen-maker |
释义 | > as lemmaspoteen-maker poteen-maker n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > illicit distilling > illicit distiller moonshiner1860 poteen-maker1893 1893 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 20 May 10/2 I had been sauntering among the Connamara [sic] ‘knitters’, ‘fullers’, poteen-makers and antiquities of the ancient Celts with which this region abounds. 1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World ii. 36 Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies. 2000 M. Fletcher Silver Linings (2001) vii. 169 I'd spent months trying to track down one of Northern Ireland's few remaining poteen-makers. < as lemmas |
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