Definitions
Yeast foam or ferment used to raise bread or brew alcohol.
Word origin
From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with German Barm (“lap; bosom”).
Used in a sentence
“[A]nd sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.”
“In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.”
“And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Yeast foam”4 letters
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