rumbustion

plural rumbustions · alternative rombostion

1. countableobsoleteuncountableSynonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.

   Both rumbullion and rumbustion, two early dialect names, may have referred to the violence that the drink was said to cause.

   2001, Barb Bancroft, An Apple a Day..., page 194

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   ... Partly the Brandewin wherewith we have furnisht him, the spirits of Rombostion, which our men there make him, and other good hopes we give him, he becomes very valiant ...

   1652, Mercurius Politicus, No. 90, p. 1435

   Synonyms: rum