brandywine
noun/ˈbɹændiwaɪn/
Etymology
Not known with certainty; so named since the 17th century; several long-held hypotheses exist, including a story of casks of brandywine that were spilled in the river's mouth in the colonial era, a fancied resemblance of the turbid water's color to that of brandywine, and an early Euro-American settler whose surname was similar to brandewijn or brandywine.
- borrowed from brandewijn
Definitions
Brandy.
- Socks dipt in Brandy-wine, and worn, are preventive.
- Running round the woodlump if you chance to find Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine, Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play. Put the brishwood back again—and they'll be gone next day!
A river or place in the United States
A river or place in the United States:
An heirloom cultivar of tomato with large potato-leaved foliage and large pink fruit.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for brandywine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA