feints
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]feints
Noun
[edit]feints pl (plural only)
- (alcohol production) The strong spirit produced at the beginning of distillation (strong feints, also foreshot), and the weak spirit produced at the end (weak feints, also tailings or tail).[1]
- Alternative form: faints
- 1893, John Albert Nettleton, The Manufacture of Spirit: As Conducted at the Various Distilleries of the United Kingdom, London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, page 125:
- A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […] .
Verb
[edit]feints
- third-person singular simple present indicative of feint
References
[edit]- ^ Andrew Ure (1840), “faints”, in A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines[1], second edition, London: Longman, Orme, Browne, Green, & Longmans, page 451