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firewater

noun as in bathtub gin

noun as in moonshine

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Example Sentences

Red Crow deprecated these occurrences, but confessed his powerlessness to prevent the flow of either firewater or of blood.

They finally left him tied with his own new rope to a huge drift log at the base of the pier, and went back to buy more firewater.

Our young men were lazy, and had not many skins to sell; but they wanted Cappen Gray's goods; they liked the firewater a heap.

How long was it before our kind Christian friends discovered that the firewater of the palefaces was not an "agency" for good?

"The Comanches are not like the Pawnees or Cheyennes to kill their eyes and ears with firewater," retorted the chief.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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