rum

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However, I will always trade off a few feet per second for a handier rifle, and I had my .338 RUM barrel cut back to 231/2 inches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Weatherby, Remington equips their .338 RUM rifles with 26-inch barrels in order to get every last foot per second from those huge charges of slow-burning powder.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a letter to Borrow he characterised it as "a RUM book and has queer stuff in it, although much expurgated for the sake of Spain."

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

“A regular RUM ’un” was the form in which the application of the word “rum” to strange, difficult, or distinguished, was first introduced to the British public. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey