stum
/stʌm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine."
- "And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause."
- "Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum, And make it brisk champaign become."
- "To each hogshead of genuine Bordeaux wine, there are four gallons of Benicarlo, half a gallon of stum wine, and a small quantity of Hermitage added, which mixture undergoes a slight fermentation, and is then exported under the name of claret."
- "But stum wine was not intended for drinking."
- "We stum our crude wines […]to renew their spirits."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stom, Stum