palm wine

Noun

palm wine (countable and uncountable, plural palm wines)

1. Any alcoholic drink produced from the sap of palm trees; toddy.
   • Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine.1815, Walter Hamilton, The East India Gazetteer, London: John Murray, page 260, column 2
   • One of the few luxuries of Matabello is the palm wine; which is the fermented sap from the flower stains of the cocoa-net. It is really a very mice drink, more like cyder than beer, though quite as intoxicating as the latter.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 102

   Synonyms:

   sagueir, sagwire, sagoweer

2. (uncountable) A genre of popular music most closely associated with mid-20th-century Sierra Leone.

   Synonyms:

   palm wine guitar