palm wine

noun

palm wine

First recorded in 1605–15

This made the eaters very thirsty, and quite ready to drink quantities of palm wine afterward.

The exception referred to is the occurrence of a free sugar, supposed to be rhamnose, in a certain palm-wine.

They line the bottom with reeds and straw, and taking on board merchandise, chiefly palm wine, float down the stream.

They are totally unacquainted with strong or spirituous liquours; and their principal beverage is palm wine.

But rum flowed literally in buckets, and palm wine several days old, which is even stronger.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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