| 单词 | forty-rod whisky |
| 释义 | > as lemmasforty-rod whisky forty-rod whisky n. = forty rod lightning n.; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies peat-reek1792 Monongahela1805 rye?1808 corn1820 small-still (whisky)1822 bald-face1840 corn-whiskey1843 raw1844 Bourbon1846 sod corn1857 valley tan1860 straight1862 forty-rod whisky1863 rock and rye1878 sour-mash1885 grain-whisky1887 forty rod lightning1889 Suntory1942 Wild Turkey1949 mash1961 pot still1994 1863 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South II. 11 Their cries for water were incessant to allay the internal fires caused by ‘40 rod’ and ‘60 rod’. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old (1875) 70 Trading for forty-rod whiskey..has played the everlasting mischief. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xiii The standard drink is whisky—‘stone fence’, ‘forty-rod’, and ‘tarantula-juice’. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 124 Forty-rod whisky was administered by a proprietor as dirty as his beasts. 1916 ‘Anzac’ On Anzac Trail v. 77 Shebangs [in Cairo] where they sell you whisky that takes the lining of your throat down with it..a soothing liquid that licks ‘forty-rod’, ‘chained lightning’, or ‘Cape smoke’ to the back of creation. 1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber vi. 59 Who's got the forty-rod, Steve?.. There's a bootlegging place somewhere, I'll be bound. 1948 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) 7 June 8/1 The mere possession of a few gills of forty rod is not counted as an ample offset to planned assassination. < as lemmas |
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