What does "shrub" mean?
Shrub: A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Additional senses
- 2.A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
- 3.To lop; to prune. [Obs.] Anderson (1573).
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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