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sagwire (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of sagueir (palm wine made from Arenga pinnata).
   • 1798, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, transl., Voyages to the East-Indies; by the Late John Splinter Stavorinus, volume II, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page 262:

     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.

   • 1815, Walter Hamilton, The East India Gazetteer, London: John Murray, page 260, column 2:

     Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine.

   • 1824, Samuel Morewood, An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of both Ancients and Moderns in the use of Inebriating Liquors, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, page 139:

     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.

   • 1931, Julius Lippert, translated by George Peter Murdock, The Evolution of Culture, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 194:

     The Australians, although unacquainted with true spirituous liquors, knew how to obtain a similar effect by chewing the twigs of the pituri bush. The Papuans of New Guinea in their intoxicating sagwire, prepared from the sap of the palm, illustrate the transition to a fluid medium for the same purpose.

2. (obsolete) The palm tree Arenga pinnata.
   • 1820, John Crawfurd, History of the Indian Archipelago, volume I, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 397:

     One of the most useful and abundant of all the palms is the Sagwire or Gomuti (Borassus gomutus).

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “sagwire”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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