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) --
Little wonder that the ordinary serving seaman is outraged by the abolition of the rum issue.
The recommendations are for cheaper flour and dearer rum.
I have worked out a diverting, but far from insignificant, statistic about aid and rum.
The only reason for watering down rum to make "grog" is that it cannot be kept.
The 'rum' they had produced became 'um'; to have retained the designation 'rum' it would have had to be produced from sugar cane alcohol.
By 1958, the dollar quotas were only for fruit, rum and cigars.
There are important preferential arrangements for sugar, bananas and rum.
If this rum is issued for medicinal purposes, are the men forced to drink it?
