Word Finder - rum

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A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.

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The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.

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A serving of rum.

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Jake tossed down three rums.

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A kind or brand of rum.

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A queer or odd person or thing.

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A country parson.

It is made of currant juice boiled with water and sugar to which some spirit, usually rum, is added.

The exports consist principally of sugar, cotton, and rum (aguardiente).

Sugar, molasses, rum (aguardente or cachaca), tobacco and fruit are largely exported.

Another form of the drink is made of rum, orange and lemon juice, peel, sugar and water.

In addition, a considerable quantity of molasses and smaller quantities of rum, vanilla and coco-nut oil are exported.

The hunter who told me this could remember one Sam Nutting, who used to hunt bears on Fair Haven Ledges, and exchange their skins for rum in Concord village; who told him, even, that he had seen a moose there.

To the usual letter announcing the victory the caliph in Egypt replied saluting Bayezid with the title of " Sultan of the lands of Rum."

The industry is steadily growing, as are the dependent manufactures of molasses and rum.

With the latter system practically as much sugar is obtained from the canes as by diffusion, and the resulting megass furnishes, in a well-appointed factory, sufficient fuel for the crop. With diffusion, however, in addition to the strict scientific control necessary to secure the benefits of the process, fuel - that is, coal or wood - has to be provided for the working off of the crop, since the spent chips or slices from the diffusers are useless for this purpose; although it is true that in some plantations the spent chips have to a certain extent been utilized as fuel by mixing them with a portion of the molasses, which otherwise would have been sold or converted into rum.

At Merry Mount, in that part of Braintree which is now Quincy, a settlement was established by Thomas Morton in 1625, but the gay life of the settlers and their selling rum and firearms to the Indians greatly offended the Pilgrims of Plymouth, who in 1627 arrested Morton; soon afterward Governor John Endecott of Massachusetts Bay visited Merry Mount, rebuked the inhabitants and cut down their Maypole.

The few other industries include rum distilleries and factories for chemicals, ice and tobacco.

The manufacturing industries of Peru are confined chiefly to the treatment of agricultural and mineral products - the manufacture of sugar and rum from sugar cane, textiles from cotton and wool, wine and spirits from grapes, cigars and cigarettes from tobacco, chocolate from cacao, kerosene and benzine from crude petroleum, cocaine from coca, and refined metals from their ores.

After the break up of the empire of Rum, Konia became a secondary city of the amirate of Karamania and in part fell to ruin.

Cargoes of rum, manufactured from West Indian sugar and molasses, were exported to Africa and exchanged for slaves to be sold in the southern colonies and the West Indies.

There are many large warehouses, rum distilleries, sugar-mills and railway machine-shops.

The industries include shipbuilding, and the manufacture of saddlery and other leather products, bricks and tile, rum, beer, chocolate and coco-nut oil.

Provisions taken to Newfoundland, poor fish to the West Indies, molasses to New England, rum to Africa and good cod to France and Spain, were the commonest ventures of foreign trade.

There are numerous sugar factories and rum distilleries.

The battle in which the sultan of Rum (1243) was defeated by the Mongols took place on the plain, and the celebrated Armenian monastery of St Gregory, "the Illuminator," lies on the hills 11 m.

The exports also include hides, mangabeira rubber, piassava fibre, diamonds, cabinet woods and rum.

The Inner Hebrides are much more scattered and principally include Skye, Small Isles (Canna, Sanday, Rum, Eigg and Muck), Coll, Tyree, Lismore, Mull, Ulva, Staffa, Iona, Kerrera, the Slate Islands (Seil, Easdale, Luing, Shuna, Torsay), Colonsay, Oronsay, Scarba, Jura, Islay and Gigha.

In addition to the breweries, rum and brandy distilleries, sugar mills and tobacco factories, which are sometimes worked as adjuncts to the plantations, there are many purely urban industries, such as the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods on a large scale, and manufactures of building material and furniture; but these industries are far less important than agriculture.

The foundation of the Seljuk empire of Rum was the immediate result of this great victory.

The affairs of state were managed by the divan under the presidency of the vizier; but in the empire of Rum its authority was inferior to that of the pervaneh, whom we may name "lord chancellor."

In Rum the feudal system was extended to Christian princes, who were acknowledged by the sultan on condition of paying tribute and serving in the armies.

About the same time the House of Commons directed the trustees to remove the prohibition on the sale of rum.

Sugar refineries, distilleries of rum, and sawmills are worked in Mayotte by French settlers.

Sugar, molasses, rum, salt, coffee and tobacco are the chief products; horses and cattle are bred.

Some of the peoples of eastern Europe take their tea with an admixture of rum.

Mineral ores, tobacco and cigars, coffee, cacao, sugar and rum and cabinet-woods are the main articles of export.

Among the manufactured products are cotton, woollen and "pita" fibre fabrics, sugar, rum, mescal, beer, furniture, pottery, soap, candles, leather, matches, chocolate, flour and cigarettes.

This has been the case with tobacco, sugar, rum, and also in butter-making, cattle-breeding and other things.

Hides, and skins, mangabeira rubber, cabinet woods, castor beans and rum are also exported.

Sugar is still grown, and rum and molasses are made, but the consumption of these is confined to the island.

Formic ether gives a peach-like odour, and is used for flavouring fictitious rum.

In 1182 it fell to Saladin, whose nephew recovered it when it had temporarily passed (1234) to the sultan of Rum; but the " Eye of Mesopotamia " never recovered the brilliance of earlier days.

It was highly successful and within a generation the production of rum became colonial New England's largest and most prosperous industry.

We know from previous actions of this administration what B u sh, Ch en ey and Rum sf eld are capable of.

The sugar cane used in the rum gives it a silky smooth finish, which is ideal for creating the perfect cocktail.

Well, I'm usually a rum and coke fan, but maybe I'm feeling a bit more flighty this evening.

Jamaican Mule 5cl dark Jamaican rum 2cl fresh lime juice ginger beer Pour the rum and lime juice into a highball filled with ice.

Review 2 12 June 1997 Mathew Parker Benefit There have been some rum goings on in the Leopard recently.

Add the rum and fill the glass with crushed ice.

Our glorious armed forces are not concerned about a few malcontents - they are just the fly in my rum.

Trade wares as a merchant, drink rum with yer mateys, or battle ship-to-ship in this hearty, accessible pirate world.

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He then mumbled something about a bottle of rum, the rest of his words Jonathan didn't hear.

He had a puncheon of rum for his body in case he should die during the voyage.

Early storage tanks were rum puncheons or cisterns made of cedar.

Also, the shop has added organic vodka, gin and spiced rum to its alcohol shelves.