[f. CIDER + -KIN, dim. suffix.] An inferior liquor made by watering and subjecting to a second pressure the pulp left after expressing the juice for cider; also called water-cider.
[1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., II. (1586), 89 b. Of Apples … they make a drinke called Cider, and a smallie drinke beside with water and the refuse of the Apples strained: good drinke to coole the thirst of the poore labourer.]
1676. Worlidge, Cyder (1691), 113. Use your Pulp afterwards for the making of Water-Cider, usually called Purre or Ciderkin.
1843. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., IV. II. 402. The dry pommey, or pulp, is thrown into water where it is allowed to macerate; and … again pressed, and affords … ciderkin, or water-cider.
