Ciderkin
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children. dialectal, historical, possibly, uncountable
"Cyderkin […] is made for the common drinking of servants, […]supplying the place of Small-beer."
Example
More examples"Cyderkin […] is made for the common drinking of servants, […]supplying the place of Small-beer."
Etymology
From cider + -kin; A Dictionary of the English Language calls it a "low word". Johnson then specifies in his time that it was brewed from "murk or gross matter of apples, after the cider is pressed out... [with] boiled water added to it; the whole infusing for about forty-eight hours."
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