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Firewater

noun
1.
Any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum).





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"Firewater" Quotes from Famous Books



... ideal loveliness, and these wild forms adorned it, as looking so at home in it. All seemed happy, and they were happy that day, for they had no firewater to madden them, as it was Sunday, and the ...
— Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller
... a few years before, one of the questions he had to meet was as to the best way of guarding against attacks from Indians, for there were plenty of them in that part of the country. There are very few red men who will not steal; and they are so fond of "firewater," or intoxicating drink, that they are likely ...
— The Story of Red Feather - A Tale of the American Frontier • Edward S. (Edward Sylvester) Ellis


Words linked to "Firewater" :   hard drink, strong drink, spirits, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, colloquialism, booze, liquor


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