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bock′ beer′
(bok),USA pronunciation
- Winea strong, dark beer typically brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption the following spring. Also called bock.
- German Bock, Bockbier literally, buck beer, perh. by misdivision of Eimbecker Bier (as if ein Bockbier one Bockbier) beer of Eimbeck in Lower Saxony, Germany
- 1855–60