Sagwire
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sagwire is a noun meaning (obsolete) Synonym of sagueir (palm wine made from Arenga pinnata).
Meaning
(obsolete) Synonym of sagueir (palm wine made from Arenga pinnata).
More Meanings
- (obsolete) The palm tree Arenga pinnata.
Example Sentences
One of the most useful and abundant of all the palms is the Sagwire or Gomuti (Borassus gomutus).
Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine.
On the fruit of this tree the natives in a great measure live, and regale themselves with its inebriating juice, as also on sagwire, a very strong species of palm wine.
One of theſe leaves, or rather branches, is cut off, and the ſagwire trickles out of it by drops, which are caught in a bamboo, hung under it for that purpoſe, and when this is full, the contents are drawn off, by a tap at the bottom.
Synonyms for sagwire
Depending on context, synonyms include sagueir.
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