A nickname for the drink called rum.
1750. Thomas Fleet, the Boston printer, published a pamphlet entitled: ‘At a Court held at Punch-Hall, in the Colony of Bacchus. The Indictment and Tryal of Sir Richard Rum, a person of notable birth and extraction, &c.’
1803.
| Dear lowly Dram shop! loveliest of the lawn, | |
| Thy flip is fled, and all thy guests are gone; | |
| Amid thy casks Sir Richard’s hand appears, | |
| And draining kegs demand our rising tears. | |
The Port Folio, iii. 8 (Phila.). |
1816. I never knew Sir Richard Rum’s friendship worth preserving.—Robert B. Thomas’s ‘Farmer’s Almanack,’ Feb.
1827. As good luck would have it, Sir Richard had so far unstrung [the drunkard’s] nerves as to render him incapable of completing his design.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 7.
