blackstrapn.

1724 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Pyrates (ed. 2) xvii. 404 These Passengers..are mostly fond of drinking Black Strap, (a strong Liquor..made from Rum, Molossus, and Chowder Beer).

1835 Apprentice's Compan. Apr. 11/1 We..occasionally indulged in a glass of cider, and sometimes even in a glass of ‘Black-strap’, or New-England rum and molasses.

1857 A. J. Davis Magic Staff xxii. 131 The brandy and molasses—‘black strap’—flowed out of my mouth.

1907 H. I. Goss T. Thorndyke 135 He now came out with four glasses filled with a dark-colored liquid. ‘That's black strap,’ he said, ‘made from the best of rum and molasses.’

1960 G. G. Korson Black Rock vi. 118 They might line up at the bar for ‘black strap’ (rum and molasses) at about three cents a glass.

2004 L. Lethbridge True Stories Pirates vi. 54 Blackstrap was the name of the drink the pirates liked best—a vile but potent brew consisting of rum, molasses and beer.

1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. II. v. iii. 68 This..may be imputed partly to the quantity of wine..which they drink. For two pence, they buy a quart of Black-strap, or Vino-Carlo, an austere black wine of such strength, that one quart fuddles a man.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Black strap, bene carlo wine, also port.

1827 London Med. Gaz. 29 Dec. 84/2 Figuera, a wine from Estremadura, only less detestable than the blackstrap.

1886 J. Pycroft Oxf. Mem. I. 126 There was no cheap wine in those days, though the Oxford black-strap was an execrable substitute for port.

1905 Baily's Mag. Aug. 140/2 Dinner.., at which many toasts were drunk, and where much ‘blackstrap’, as Mr. Jorrocks styled the heavy port which was so popular, was consumed.

1984 R. Woodman Bomb Vessel (2000) 31 ‘Pray help yourself to a glass of blackstrap.’.. ‘The roads were dreadful, sir,’ said Trussel, helping himself to the cheap, dark wine.

2001 J. Stockwin Artemis (2003) i. 16 ‘My apologies about the blackstrap,’ the man said, upending a bottle into the tankard.

1873 Official Catal. Amer. Dept. Vienna Universal Exhib. 41/2 Louisiana Crystal Syrup, made from Philadelphia Blackstrap Molasses.

1889 Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1888 283 The molasses was very dark in color, sharp and bitter to the taste, classed but little better than black-strap.

1918 A. W. McCann Sci. of Eating (1919) ccxxiii. 373 Dairy feed..consists chiefly of wood and ash, mixed with black strap, the lowest by-product masquerading under the name of molasses.

1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift from House by Sea iv. 201 Alewives were once salted in enormous quantities and shipped to the West Indies in vessels that brought back blackstrap molasses for making New England rum.

1981 Vegetarian Times Sept. 54/3 Unsulphured molasses..is not as good nutritionally as blackstrap but it's still far better than any other sweetener.

2010 J. Hestekin et al. in K.-V. Peinemann & S. Pereira Nunes Membrane Technol. III. iv. 88 Blackstrap molasses is usually sold at low price for cattle feed or for alcohol production.