valinch

English

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Alternative forms

valenche

Etymology

Compare French avaler (“to let down, drink up”). Compare avalanche.

Noun

valinch (plural valinches)

A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.

Translations

a tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole

German: Stechheber m

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “valinch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)