grog

Meanings

Noun

• An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
• Any alcoholic beverage.
• A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
• An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
• A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

Verb

• To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.

Origin

• An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.