sweetwort

English

Etymology

From sweet +‎ wort.

Noun

sweetwort (plural sweetworts)

1. Any of a variety of sweet-tasting plants.
2. A fermented beverage made from malt.
   • 2024, Jill L. Baker, Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East, page 2018:

     It is you who hold with both hands the great sweetwort, brewing it with honey and wine.

References

• “sweetwort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sweetwort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)