STUMMING
Verb
stumming
present participle of stum
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Source: Wiktionary
STUM
Stum, n. Etym: [D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin
muet stum. Cf. Stammer, Stoom.]
1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation
in dead or vapid wines; must.
Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. B. Jonson.
And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause. Dryden.
2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of
must. Hudibras.
Stum, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming.]
Definition: To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new
fermentation.
We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition