ciderkin

Meaning

Noun

• A weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children.

Origin

• cider + -kin; A Dictionary of the English Language calls it a "low word". Johnson then specifies in his time that it was brewed from "murk or gross matter of apples, after the cider is pressed out... [with] boiled water added to it; the whole infusing for about forty-eight hours."