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jaggeries

jaggeries is the plural of jaggery.

Meaning of jaggery

Noun

jaggery (countable and uncountable, plural jaggeries)

  1. A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.
    • The next Tree is the Kettule. […] It yieldeth a ſort of Liquor, which they call Tellegie: it is rarely ſweet and pleaſing to the Pallate, and as wholſom to the Body, but no ſtronger than water. […] An ordinary Tree will yield ſome three, ſome four Gallons in a day, ſome more and ſome leſs. The...1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies: […], London: […] Richard Chiswell, printer to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 15
  2. (broadly) A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane to make sugar.

Questions about jaggeries

What is jaggeries the plural of?
Jaggeries is the plural of jaggery.

Words near jaggeries in the dictionary

  1. jagger
  2. jaggerbush
  3. jaggerbushes
  4. jaggered
  5. Jaggeresque
  6. jaggeries
  7. Jaggerish
  8. Jaggernaut
  9. jaggers
  10. jaggery
  11. jaggheries

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