Bragget

Brag´get


n.1.A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend bragget, We’ll teach you.”—Lear.
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This was a heavy brew, laced with spices, often sweetened with honey; known as bragawd or bragget, it was almost as famous as that other Celtic drink, mead.
The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales Extracts Food and Drink
Geological Survey (USGS) database of coal quality (Bragget al.
Mapping and prediction of coal workers' pneumoconiosis with bioavailable iron content in the bituminous coals
In West Wales it was defined as a sow (or tub of butter), a flitch of bacon, three score loaves of wheaten bread (six of fine flour, if wheat grew in the region, but otherwise oaten), bragget, twenty sheaves of oats, and a penny.
Old English peru 'loaves' in a Westbury charter of 793-796
The hero Blaen, who loved purple robes and gold, dispensed the drinking-horn in his luxurious palace as he rested oa cushioas: blaen gwirawt vragawt ef dybydei ~there was drink of bragget for Blaen'.
Wered 'sweet drink' at 'Beowulf' 496: Welsh gwirod 'liquor, drink.'
The winter foodgift was defined in one code, from Dyfed, as a sow three fingers thick in her hams, ribs and gammoas; a flitch of salted bacon; three score wheaten loaves; a vat of bragget; twenty sheaves of oats; and a penny for the servants.
'Tikes' at 'Piers Plowman' B.XIX.37: Welsh taeog 'serf, bondman.'
Rabbit's Foot does darker brews like braggets, made with barley and roasted hops, that go well with burgers and brats.
Bring on the mead
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