ciderkin en · NOUN
Etymology
From cider + -kin; A Dictionary of the English Language calls it a "low word". Johnson then specifies in his time that it was brewed from "murk or gross matter of apples, after the cider is pressed out... [with] boiled water added to it; the whole infusing for about forty-eight hours."
Meanings
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(dialectal, historical, possibly, uncountable) A weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children.
Cyderkin […] is made for the common drinking of servants, […]supplying the place of Small-beer.
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
wikipedia: Samuel Johnson · wikipedia: A Dictionary of the English Language