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PORTER'S BEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
Synonyms:
porter; porter's beer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("porter's beer" is a kind of...):
ale (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)