a brandy distilled from fermented cider; apple brandy
2.
fermented cider
3.
an alcoholic beverage consisting of the unfrozen liquid that remains after freezing fermented cider
4. (chiefly in North Carolina and Brit dialect)
an apple turnover
Word origin
[1810–20, Amer.;apple + jack1]This word is first recorded in the period 1810–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cleavage, dominance, duplex, liberalism, rationalize