kill-devil
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kill-devil
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From kill + devil.
noun kill devil
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Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...
Similar: rum
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