cooking liquor

noun

A liquid used to process pulpwood and make pulp, being called white liquor in its unused form, and black liquor after processing (after "cooking"), where it has dissolved and washed out impurities from the pulp, which becomes the resultant brown stock (pulp).

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Meanings

nouncooking liquor (countable and uncountable, plural cooking liquors)

plural cooking liquors

  1. countableuncountableartsA liquid used to process pulpwood and make pulp, being called white liquor in its unused form, and black liquor after processing (after "cooking"), where it has dissolved and washed out impurities from the pulp, which becomes the resultant brown stock (pulp).
  2. countableuncountablecookingUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cooking, liquor.
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APA

cooking liquor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooking%20liquor

MLA

“cooking liquor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooking%20liquor. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cooking liquor,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooking%20liquor.

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