bragget
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A kind of mead made of ale boiled with honey, seasoned with pepper, cloves, mace, cinnamon, nutmegs, and fermented with wort or yeast.
Examples
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And these men are honourably served with mead and bragget, and are freely beloved by the daughters of the kings of the Island of Britain.
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And, what with one man’s fish and a dozen men’s poissons, sowing my wild plums to reap ripe plentihorns mead, lashings of erbole and hydromel and bragget, I’d come out with my magic fluke in close time, fair, free and frolicky, zooming tophole on the mart as a factor.
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Honey that is nine times sweeter than the honey of the virgin swarm, without scum and bees, do I require to make bragget for the feast.
Note
The word 'bragget' comes ultimately from a Welsh word meaning 'brag malt'.
