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A weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, historical, possibly, uncountable
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History
From cider + -kin; A Dictionary of the English Language calls it a "low word". Johnson then specifies in his time that it was brewed from "murk or gross matter of apples, after the cider is pressed out... [with] boiled water added to it; the whole infusing for about forty-eight hours."
