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guiller

/ɡi.je/

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verb/ɡi.je/

to ferment, to cause the yeast to overflow from the barrel/keg

Inherited from Old French ghiller, from Middle Dutch gilen (“to ferment”). The word was introduced into Walloon, Flemish and Picard at a time when the brewing industry was flourishing in the Low Country.