User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
/'bi:zwɪŋ/Noun
- a filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged
for a long time
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- 1904: The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Abbey Grange’ (Norton 2005, p.1170)
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Extensive Definition
Beeswing may refer to:
- Potassium bitartrate
- Beeswing (horse), a 19th Century champion racehorse from Northern England.
- A song by Richard Thompson (musician).
Places
- Beeswing, a small village in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
- The Beeswing Inn, a pub in East Cowton, North Yorkshire.
beeswing is the debris which is found as a
sediment in the bottles of matured port wines.