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A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East
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The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.
Examples of arrack in a Sentence
The juice, when not boiled down to form sugar, is either drunk fresh, or fermented and distilled to form arrack.
Almost the only manufactures of any importance are the distillation of arrack, which is principally carried on by Chinese, the burning of lime and bricks, and the making of pottery.
Rice is also -the source of a drinking spirit in India, known as arrack, and the national beverage of Japan - sake - is prepared from the grain by means of an organic ferment.
Industrially and commercially Lemberg is the most important city in Galicia, its industries including the manufacture of machinery and iron wares, matches, stearin candles and naphtha, arrack and liqueurs, chocolate, chicory, leather and plaster of Paris, as well as brewing, corn-milling and brick and tile making..