Arrack

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, ·etc.

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