grog
IPA: grˈɑg
noun
- An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
- An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
- (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
- (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
- A male given name of a notional caveman.
verb
- (ceramics) To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
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Examples of "grog" in Sentences
- The grog shop is their center of power.
- The milled pitchers may be used as grog.
- Its a fact that Steve stayed away from the grog.
- Not a few were grocers who also kept back room grog shops.
- Gwern y Grog is in the marshland at the bottom of Garth Celyn.
- Call a woodcutter, tip the gourd and drink the dregs of cloud pale grog.
- The Little River Inn originated as a shanty selling grog in the early 1840s.
- Once all charges have been added to the grog bowl, the formal dinner begins.
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