stum
unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.
wine in which increased fermentation has taken place because of the addition of stum.
to increase the fermentation of (wine) by adding stum.
Origin of stum
1Words Nearby stum
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How to use stum in a sentence
From the violent red of his nose and cheeks it could easily be seen that he had been making rather too free with the stum.
The Red Tavern | Charles Raymond MacauleyBut mayhap thou wouldst first down a flitch of bacon and a tankard or so of stum?
The Red Tavern | Charles Raymond Macauley
British Dictionary definitions for stum
/ (stʌm) in wine-making /
a less common word for must 3
partly fermented wine added to fermented wine as a preservative
to preserve (wine) by adding stum
Origin of stum
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