still
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8.6
- noun
- /stɪl/
- Specialized
:
alambique
- Over the next few days, the Rangers smashed stills and busted open kegs of white lightning on downtown streets.
- pot still
- copper stills
- moonshine stills
Examples
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The Macon Central Laboratory even bought copper turpentine and brandy stills in North Carolina for melting into percussion caps.
Academic text (2007) -
EPSEA's demonstration project has installed solar stills at a colonia along the Texas-Mexico border.
Academic text (1998) -
Some of them had these illegal stills.
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I thought we cleared up all their stills.
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Okay, and I hear there's four new stills operating.
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Daddy told me and Knee about the times when the high sheriff would drive down into the swamp looking for stills.
Fiction book (1993) -
It took a good deal of courage to operate the big Burton stills.
Academic text (2005) -
They were the biggest stills Franklin had ever seen and we hid them deep in the woods where Rakes could never find them.
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The extraordinary skill and care with which the stills were operated is indicated by the fact that during the first eight years, hundreds of stills were operated before there was any fatal accident.
Academic text (2005) -
The homemade whiskey still was hidden deep in the woods to avoid detection.
Synonyms
A machine that runs without stopping to separate alcohol from fermented grain or fruit to make spirits like whisky
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
1
8.1
A way of hunting where the hunter moves very quietly or waits in one spot to surprise animals
- Specialized
A machine that runs without stopping to separate alcohol from fermented grain or fruit to make spirits like whisky
How Obsolete
Surface Forms
Etymology
Still as the name for a distilling machine comes from the verb distill, which means 'to drip' or to heat and collect liquid, so a still is the tool that makes spirits or purified liquids by that process.