ciderkin

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noun

A weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children.

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Meanings

nounciderkin (uncountable)
  1. dialectalhistoricalpossiblyuncountableA weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children.

    Cyderkin […] is made for the common drinking of servants, […]supplying the place of Small-beer.

    1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Origin

From cider + -kin; A Dictionary of the English Language calls it a "low word". Johnson then specifies in his time that it was brewed from "murk or gross matter of apples, after the cider is pressed out... [with] boiled water added to it; the whole infusing for about forty-eight hours."

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APA

ciderkin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ciderkin

MLA

“ciderkin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ciderkin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ciderkin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ciderkin.

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