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Carter-head still

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

is a type of still developed in the nineteenth century specifically to make gin. It employs a separate botanical basket to infuse the heated vapor leaving the top of the still. See also botanical, still, pot.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).