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

Work it with your paddle for half an hour; then put one quart of stum forcing to it, which will unite their bodies, and likewise make it fine and bright.

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

To stum wine is to renew dead and insipid wine by mixing new wine with it and so raising a fresh fermentation. cf.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Novum Testamentum Versionis Vulgatae, per stum Hieryonymum ad vetusta exemplaria Graeca castigatae et exactae.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose