Crossword clues for applejack
The Collaborative International Dictionary
applejack \applejack\, Apple-jack \Ap"ple-jack`\, n. Apple brandy; a brandy distilled from cider. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.
WordNet
n. distilled from hard cider
Wikipedia
AppleJack was a command-line interface for Mac OS X that provided a simplified user interface for single user mode system repairs. It allowed for permission repair, disk repair, cache cleaning, validation of preference- and property list files, and removal of swap files on a boot drive, without needing a separate startup disk.
With the introduction of the recovery partition in Mac OS X Lion and above, AppleJack development has ceased.
Applejack is a strong apple-flavored alcoholic beverage produced from apples, popular in the American colonial period. The name derives from "jacking", a term for "increasing" (alcohol content) and specifically for " freeze distilling", the traditional method of producing the drink.
Usage examples of "applejack".
Watts accepted a stiff shot of applejack, which he poured into his shaken and still quivering body.
He reached for the cup of applejack and drank, then looked at me for the first time, holding up the cup inquiringly.
We spent two days during a severe storm of rain and sleet in a farm-barn where the slaves were so drunk on applejack that they had forgotten us and left us with nothing to eat but raw turnips.
But he was exceedingly jolly withal, and welcomed the Yankees with pompous good-humor, despatching a sergeant for a jug of applejack, which was doubtless as inexpensive to the major as his other hospitality.
Falstaff revived, though not before he had imbibed about a pint of applejack, an occupation in which he could not persuade either of us, this time, to join him.
He picked up the bottle of applejack and poured a hefty dollop for Dr.
One drink led to another, and by the time the story of the assaulted scarecrow had been thrice repeated at the special request of Miss Turner, who was able to extract from it at each telling fresh sources of enjoyment, the applejack had long dissociated itself from the bottle.
Hunter Hawk, with an emotion of exaltation not entirely unbeholden to applejack, felt himself well equipped to face a new and eventful life.
The remainder of the space was given over to applejack, an arrangement to which no one made objection.
I think our host said it contained applejack, champagne and some other ingredient.
Wolf drank the applejack and became so happy that he rolled around on the floor of the lodge, singing and shouting and trying to fuck the furs on his bed.
All the while Raven kept his cup full of applejack, until Snow Wolf had filled the lodge with people and the liquor was gone.
From his occasional missteps and slurred speech, it was apparent he had ladled out applejack for himself from the canned heat wagon.
Anyway was there he picked up a taste for Calvados - the Normandy applejack.
When we'd finished eating, I poured the coffee and brought out some applejack and two pony glasses.