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Swum vs Stum - What's the difference?

swum | stum |

As verbs the difference between swum and stum

is that swum is past participle of swim while stum is to ferment.

As a noun stum is

unfermented grape juice; must.

swum

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (swim)
    • English irregular past participles

    stum

    English

    Noun

  • Unfermented grape juice; must.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.
  • * Dryden
    • And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
  • Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1664 , year_published=1835 , author= , title=Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1 , page=265 , section=Part II, Canto 1 , pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PsQf26jDVSkC&pg=PA265 , passage=Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum ,
    And make it brisk champaign become.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ferment
  • to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
    • We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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