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noun
a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
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Origin of spruce beer
First recorded in 1490–1500
Words nearby spruce beer
sprocket hole,
sprog,
sprout,
Spruance,
spruce,
spruce beer,
spruce beetle,
spruce budworm,
spruce grouse,
spruce pine,
spruce sawfly Dictionary.com Unabridged
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How to use spruce beer in a sentence
In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
We know that the skies are open season for all manner of drone traffic, from missile launchers to beer droppers.
I was bored, but I grabbed a red Solo cup, filled it with beer, and stayed with my group, chatting with the brothers about Jim.
We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.
He said officers no longer arrest people for merely having an open beer bottle but instead ask them to leave the alcohol behind.
In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!
A cricket-match was in progress, but the bowling and batting were extremely wild, thanks to The Warren strong beer.
Beans and bacon, cabbage and brown hard dumplings, formed the bill of fare, which the men washed down with plenty of table beer.
Scattergood fairly licked his lips as he thought of the millions upon millions of feet of spruce to be sawed into lumber.
Also, ownership of vast limits of growing spruce was necessary to the control of the valley.
British Dictionary definitions for spruce beer
noun
an alcoholic drink made of fermented molasses flavoured with spruce twigs and cones
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