Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alcohol distilled from potatoes: it is made chiefly in Germany.
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Examples
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On the rough trestles a number of glasses, half filled with raw potato-spirit, gave the keynote to the temper of the assembly.
I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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So vile a drink there is not elsewhere in the world; arrack, and potato-spirit, and all the other killing extracts of the distiller are not equal to it.
The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867
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This can do no harm; the addition is homogeneous and chemically combines with the grape-juice; but when potato-spirit and cane-rum are substituted for alcohol distilled from wine, the result is bad.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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One of the heads of these two new households started a distillery of potato-spirit, and the other was a wool-washer; each combined these occupations with his official work, and in this way two valuable industries were created among us.
The Country Doctor Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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