stumming

Variant of stum

stum definition

stum (stum)

noun

  1. grape juice that is unfermented or only partly fermented
  2. wine revived by adding stum to it so as to produce new fermentation

Etymology: Du stom, must, new wine < stom, dumb: see stumble

transitive verb stummed, stumming stum′·ming

to revive (wine) by adding stum

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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