Wiktionary
n. (context US English) An alcoholic beverage formed by fermenting cider (apple juice).
WordNet
n. alcoholic drink from fermented cider; `cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage
Usage examples of "hard cider".
It would keep there, and they would have it for their grandchildren, for nieces and nephews, for themselves whenever they didn't care for hard cider.
She hoisted one of the leather bottles looted from the burned village, the last that still held hard cider.
Equally thrilled not to be obliged to join the militia, the Browns instead joined heartily in the celebration, contributing three large kegs of Thomasina Brown's best home-brewed beer and six gallons of hard cider to the cause-at half-cost.
He wasn't sure how or why, but he didn't think either promise would be really easy to keep back at the party, between the music and the dancing and the kegs of beer, wine, mead, and hard cider being tapped in such abundance.
After eight hours of quaffing their best hard cider, the damned cow was still on his feet!
She found herself swept by the tide of the crowd to a long table where hard cider was sold from a barrel.
There would be hard cider again, to start the day, fresh vegetables from the kitchen garden.
This smells like the hard cider that they used to put up back home.