sweetwort

[sweet-wurt, -wawrt]

noun British.

Origin of sweetwort

First recorded in 1560–70; sweet + wort¹

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Captain Cook prized it greatly and always supplied his men with a freshly-made infusion of malt called “sweetwort.”
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Alfred Fabian Hess