taplash

English

Etymology

tap +‎ lash?

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

taplash (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Small beer of bad quality.
2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) The refuse or dregs of liquor.
   • 1622, John Taylor, The Water-Cormorant:

     Fac'd with the tap-lash of strong Ale and Wine

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “taplash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• asphalt, spathal