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/ɹʌm/ · noun
(uncountable) A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses..
... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...
That the former orders concerning rum, sugar, and hammocks be still in force, viz., one half to be forfeited to the King, and one half to the informer.
The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.
having a rum time
a rum idea; a rum fellow
"Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"
[H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.
Use 4rum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
4rum means (uncountable) A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses..
Common synonyms include rumbullion, rumbustion, kill-devil, Nelson's blood.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...
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