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low-wine

low-wine is the alternative form of low wine.

Meaning of low wine

Noun

low wine (countable and uncountable, plural low wines)

  1. (in plural, often) A liquor containing about 20 percent alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still.
    • A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […].1893, John Albert Nettleton, The Manufacture of Spirit: As Conducted at the Various Distilleries of the United Kingdom, London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, page 125

Forms of low-wine

plurallow-wines

Questions about low-wine

What is low-wine the alternative form of?
Low-wine is the alternative form of low wine.

Words near low-wine in the dictionary

  1. low-top fade
  2. low-value
  3. low-velocity
  4. low-water mark
  5. low-water marks
  6. low-wine
  7. low-wines
  8. low-wing
  9. low-wire
  10. low-wires
  11. lowable

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