sweetwort

[ sweet-wurt, -wawrt ]

noun

, British.

1. an infusion of unfermented malt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sweetwort¹

First recorded in 1560–70; sweet + wort ¹

Example Sentences

Why, there's Sweetwort the brewer—don't you know Sweetwort?

From Project Gutenberg

If the yeast be flat, and that which is fresh and lively cannot be procured, put to it a pint of warm sweetwort of the first letting off, when it is about half the degree of milk-warm.

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Or boil a pound of the fine raspings of guaiacum, with six gallons of sweetwort, till reduced to five; and when it is set to work, put in the above ingredients.

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Take of the fairest and lay them in sweetwort two or three days, then lay them in a broad preserving Pan of earth, and bake them, but let the Oven be but gently hot, then lay them upon lattice Sieves and set them into a warm Oven, and turn them twice a day till they are dry.

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