sweetwort
[ sweet-wurt, -wawrt ]
/ ˈswitˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt /
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noun British.
an infusion of unfermented malt.
Nearby words
- sweetness,
- sweetness and light,
- sweetsop,
- sweetveld,
- sweetwater,
- sweir,
- swelinck,
- swell,
- swell box,
- swell front
Origin of sweetwort
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for sweetwort
Captain Cook prized it greatly and always supplied his men with a freshly-made infusion of malt called “sweetwort.”
Scurvy Past and Present|Alfred Fabian Hess