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cyder

British  
/ ˈsaɪdə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling (esp Brit) of cider

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Many thousand pipes of spoiled cyder are annually brought hither from the country, for the purpose of being converted into factitious Port wine.

From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Friedrich Christian Accum

A considerable quantity of excellent cyder is made in the neighbourhood of Tours.

From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by J. H. Holdsworth

We learn little more of the clock or of the cyder; and we are at a loss to explain the reason why.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

The honest Cambrians round their cyder cask, In friendship meet the moments to solace; Tell all thy worth as circles round the ask, And cheerly sing of “Shenkin’s noble race.”

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller

Its origin was due to Pym and the Long Parliament, who imposed duties on beer, cyder, and perry, which at the Restoration produced an annual income of more than six hundred thousand pounds.

From History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

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