rice-spirit

English

Noun

rice-spirit (countable and uncountable, plural rice-spirits)

1. An alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 261:

     "There is nothing to drink. No, wait. I have some rice-spirit. We could drink that with altar-wine."