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quick vinegar

quick vinegar noun: vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.

Noun

quick vinegar (uncountable)

  1. Vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
    • Dr. Kastner prescribes the following manner of making a malt wine for the quick vinegar process […]1848, Andrew Ure, “On Acetic Acid”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7, page 330
    • In the other, a large surface of the liquid is exposed to the air, which is cause to circulate over it, so that the process is completed in a far shorter time, on which account it is called the "quick vinegar process."1905, Bertram Blount, Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, page 236

Questions about quick vinegar

What does quick vinegar mean?
Quick vinegar means vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
What part of speech is quick vinegar?
Quick vinegar is a noun.

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