noun.
A dark, very thick molasses, especially a residual product of sugar refining that is used in the manufacture of industrial alcohol and as an ingredient in cattle feed.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A name of various beverages.
noun.
A sailors' term for any strong, dark-colored liquor: hence applied to the dark-red wines of the Mediterranean coasts.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
noun.
Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
noun.
The dark, viscousmolasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.
noun.
A mixture of spirituousliquor (usually rum) and molasses.
noun.
Bad portwine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
Word Usage
"The third boiling produces what we both apparently call blackstrap molasses, which is very dark and somewhat bitter, and which health-food advocates think is heaven on earth, although it is more often used to feed cattle."