Both Uses of
ferment
in
Always Running
- The day before, Yuk Yuk and Daddio had chug-a-lugged several pints of tequila, as in the old country where men of leather tamed the wilds of land and animal only to be enslavedby the maguey's juice, fueled by the residue of herbs, the ferment of harvests — quenching a deeper thirst.†
Chpt 6
- He breaks down, a flood of fermented rage seeping out of every pore.†
Chpt 10 *
Definition:
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(ferment as in: ferment grapes) chemically change by a living agent -- such as when yeast or bacteria changes sugar to alcohol when making wine