kill-devil

kill-devil englanniksi

1. (synonym of)(ngd)

2. 1639 September 24, John Josselyn, Journal in https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66922/66922-h/66922-h.htm ''An Account of Two Voyages to New-England...'' (1673), p. 24:

... 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 ...

3. (c.), "A Briefe Description of the Island of Barbados" in Trinity College MS G4, p. 15:

...the chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor.

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