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Pomace
Definitions
- 1 The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.; Such residue from apples used in the process of cidermaking; also, a mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out. countable, uncountable
"In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the vvork more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: […]"
- 2 The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.; Such residue from grapes used in winemaking. countable, uncountable
- 3 The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.; Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer. countable, historical, uncountable
"Sovv, as yet, Pomace of Cider-preſſings to raiſe Nurſeries; and ſet all ſorts of Kernels, Stones, &c."
- 4 Synonym of pulp (“a soft, moist mass formed by mashing something”). UK, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable
- 5 Sheep offal. broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"To haſh a Lamb's Pumice. Boil the head and neck at moſt a quarter of an hour, the heart five minutes, and the lights half an hour, the liver boil'd or fry'd in ſlices (but not haſh'd) ſlice all the reſt very thin, put in the gravy that runs from it, and a quarter of a pint of the liquor they are boiled in, […]"
Etymology
[Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds] From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum. Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France).
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