barm
/bɑːm
/noun
1 [mass noun] The froth on fermenting malt liquor.Spring water, barm and malt of grain have created this classic whisky....
- There are still some who believe that bread made with barm had an especially good flavour.
- Poultices of wormwood boiled in grease, barm, or wine, may be applied with good success to white swellings.
1.1 archaic or dialect Yeast or leaven.Elizabeth David, in a fine account of the history of yeast in English baking, remarks that: In Chaucer's England one of the names for yeast or barm was goddisgoode....
- So the first barm-raised bread was developed.
- It looks like barm or yeast, but, being unfit for use, is only beggarly barm at best.
2 short for barm cake.
Origin
Old English beorma, of West Germanic origin.
Rhymes
- well-stopped
- well-stored
- well-strained
- well stream
- well-structured
- well-strung
- well-studied
- well-stuffed
- well-suited
- well-sung
- well-supplied
- well supported
- well-sustained
- well sweep
- well-swelled
- well-swollen
- well-tailored
- well taken
- well-tamed
- well-tanned
- well-tasted
- well-taught
- well-taxed
- well tempered
- well-tended