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claim is that the name was derived from rumbullion meaning "a great tumult or uproar". another claim is the name is from the large drinking glasses used by dutch seamen known as rummers, from the dutch word roemer, a drinking glass. other options include contractions of the words saccharum, latin for sugar
, or arôme, french for aroma. regardless of the original source, the name had come into common use by may when the general court of massachusetts made illegal the sale of strong liquor "whether knowne by the name of rumme, strong water, wine, brandy, etc., etc." in current usage, the name used for a...
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