subs. (old and American).—Rum: specifically new spirit.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. KILL-DEVIL, new still-burnt rum.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
