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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An alcoholic liquor, especially rum diluted with water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Originally, a mixture of spirit and water served out to sailors, called, according to the proportion of water, two-water grog, three-water grog, etc.
  2. n. Hence Strong drink of any sort: used, like rum, as a general term and in reprobation. Compare groggery.
  3. n. See the extract.
  4. To make into grog by mixing with water, as spirits.
  5. To extract grog from, as the wood of an empty spiritcask, by pouring hot water into it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. an alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
  2. n. Any alcoholic beverage.
  3. n. A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size, also called firesand.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. rum cut with water

Etymologies

  1. After Old Grog, nickname of Edward Vernon (1684-1757), British admiral who ordered that diluted rum be served to his sailors, from grogram (from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak).

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