Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHOW'DER
CHOW'DER, n.
In New England, a dish of fish boiled with biscuit, &c. In Spanish, chode is a paste made of milk, eggs, sugar and flour. In the west of England, chowder-beer is a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing with it melasses.
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