jaggery
(ˈdʒægərɪ)
Forms: 6 gagara, 6–8 jagra, 7 jeggery, jagre, jaggaree, 7–8 jaggory, 8 jagree, 9 jagory, -ery, jaggeree, -ary, (jaghery, -ari), 7– jaggery.
[a. Indo-Port. jágara, jagra, jagre, ad. Canarese sharkare, Urdū shakkar, Skr. {cced}arkarā: see sugar.]
1. A coarse dark brown sugar made in India by evaporation from the sap of various kinds of palm.
| 1598 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 252 Sugar which is made of the nutte called Gagara: the tree is called the palmer. 1598 tr. Linschoten's Voy. 102 Of the aforesaide Sura they likewise make Sugar, which is called Iagra. 1631 in Cal. Colon. Pap., E. Ind. (1892) 161 Half a hhd. of jaggery, given to him by Capt. Weddell. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 15 The which Liquor they boyl and make a kind of brown Sugar, called Iaggory. 1732 Pike in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 231 Dissolve 20 lb of Jaggery, which is course Sugar (or thick Molasses) in Water. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son cxv. III. 224 Cargoes of coir, oil, jaggeree, ghee, and cocoa⁓nuts. 1897 Daily News 29 Jan. 5/7 The Government have stopped irrigation in the case of all the ‘jaghari’ sugar-cane crops. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 204 Jaggery, or palm sugar—looking like bags of black mud, and almost as nice to handle. |
2. jaggery palm, a palm-tree that yields jaggery, esp. Caryota urens.
| 1859 All Year Round No. 32. 130 The tusked elephant is able to rip open the stems of the jaggery palms and young palmyras to extract the mealy core. 1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure 234 Brown ‘jaggery’ sugar, got from the jaggery palm. |