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low wine

noun

  1. Often low wines. Distilling. the weak spirits obtained from the first distillation; the result of the first run of the still from the fermented mash.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of low wine1

First recorded in 1635–45
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Example Sentences

The low wine then goes through a second distillation phase in a smaller spirit still—but more on that in a moment.

The only shops of any sort are the low wine shops which open their evil-smelling doors to the passer-by.

He breathed the atmosphere of low wine-shops, houses of ill-fame.

He went through narrow, ill-smelling streets, where strange-looking faces peered at him curiously from low wine-shops.

Then he walked away, and after threading several of the worst streets of the town, stopped at a low wine shop.

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