stum

American  

[stuhm] / stʌm /

noun

1. unfermented or partly fermented grape juice.

2. wine in which increased fermentation has taken place because of the addition of stum.

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verb (used with object)

stummed, stumming

1. to increase the fermentation of (wine) by adding stum.

stum British  

/ stʌm /

noun

1. a less common word for must 3

2. partly fermented wine added to fermented wine as a preservative

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verb

1. to preserve (wine) by adding stum

Etymology

Origin of stum

1650–60; < Dutch stom dumb, dull; compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein, in the same sense

Example Sentences

Leader of the expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50.

From Time Magazine Archive

Afore we knowed it a’most, he was down and lying flat on his stum.

From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by Fenn, George Manville

This will cut the rope in a day or two; then rack it and force it with the same stum forcing at is directed for beer that is not sweet, as in page 26.

From The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director In Three Parts by Chapman, Thomas

Melca ... stum; List. mel castum, refined honey; Tac.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers

This will make it a little flat, to remedy which you must rack it clean from it's bottoms, and throw a quart of stum forcing to it.

From The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director In Three Parts by Chapman, Thomas