Word.ws English Dictionary

beeswings

beeswings is the plural of beeswing.

Meaning of beeswing

Noun

beeswing (usually uncountable, plural beeswings)

  1. (usually) A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time.
    • The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published 2005, page 1170
  2. (usually) Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid.

Questions about beeswings

What is beeswings the plural of?
Beeswings is the plural of beeswing.

Words near beeswings in the dictionary

  1. beeswaxed
  2. beeswaxes
  3. beeswaxing
  4. beeswing
  5. beeswinged
  6. beeswings
  7. beet
  8. beet armyworm
  9. beet armyworms
  10. beet greens
  11. beet juice

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beeswings (page history and authors); beeswing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “beeswings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/beeswings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.