megass

Etymology
Attested since about 1840 in American English, a modification of bagasse.

Noun

 * 1)  Bagasse.
 * 2) * 1846, Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany (Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston), page 119:
 * The megass was then gathered together, and suffered to steep in water so hot, that the hand can be borne in it without inconvenience, and after a while the megass was reground : the canes yielded two pans of liquor, and the megass one;