stum

American  

[stuhm] / stʌm /

noun

1. unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.

2. wine in which increased fermentation has taken place because of the addition of stum.

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verb (used with object)

stummed, stumming

1. to increase the fermentation of (wine) by adding stum.

stum British  

/ stʌm /

noun

1. a less common word for must 3

2. partly fermented wine added to fermented wine as a preservative

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verb

1. to preserve (wine) by adding stum

Etymology

Origin of stum

1650–60; < Dutch stom dumb, dull; compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein, in the same sense

Example Sentences

Leader of the expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50.

From Time Magazine Archive

Novum Testamentum Versionis Vulgatae, per stum Hieryonymum ad vetusta exemplaria Graeca castigatae et exactae.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Nor shall I, when you hither come, Demand a crown a-quart for stum.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst

Melca ... stum; List. mel castum, refined honey; Tac.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers

Afore we knowed it a’most, he was down and lying flat on his stum.

From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by Fenn, George Manville