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rum
UK /ɹʌm/ US /ɹʌm/
noun 8name 5adj 2
Definitions
noun
1
A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...
That the former orders concerning rum, sugar, and hammocks be still in force, viz., one half to be forfeited to the King, and one half to the informer.
2
A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
Jake tossed down three rums.
3
A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.
4
A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
5
A strange person or thing.
adj
1
Fine, excellent, valuable.
having a rum time
2
Strange, peculiar.
a rum idea; a rum fellow
"Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"
noun
1
Any odd person or thing.
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