0 a strong alcoholic drink made from the juice of the sugar cane plant:
I'll have a (glass of) rum.
2 a strong alcoholic drink made from molasses (= sweet liquid from sugar plants)
Production and trade aspects are effectively combined with the social history of rum consumption.
This goes for instance for rum and tobacco.
After all, textbooks have long enshrined the notion of the triangle trade, with rum representing one edge.
French colonial rum output achieved the most rapid growth, filling the gap in the metropolitan market created by the vineyard blights oidium and phylloxera.
A key inference here is that rum shipments overseas should be a close guide to local consumption levels.
They immediately ordered rum and coca-cola.
But it is certainly not true that the duty is 16 times what rum would otherwise be sold for to the public.
If this rum is issued for medicinal purposes, are the men forced to drink it?