ginger beer (jinjerber)

An effervescing beverage made by fermenting ginger, cream of-tartar, and sugar with yeast and water. gingerbread (jin jer-bred), n. [ ginger bred, -breed; They fette him first the sweete wyn, And mede eek in a maselyn, And roial spicer ye Of ginge breed that was ful fyn, And lycorys and eek comyne, With sugre that is so trye. Chaucer , Sir Thopas, 1. 143. An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread . Shak ., L. L. L., v. 1. He brought my little ones a pennyworth of ginger bread each, which my wife undertook to keep for them, and gave them by letters at a time. Goldsmith, Vicar, xii. gingerbread-plum (jin'jer-bred-plum), n. The fruit of the gingerbread-tree, Parinarium ma crophyllum.