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tāt, n.2 East Ind.|tɑːt|
Also taut.
[a. Hindī ṭāṭ a strip of very thick hemp-canvas, about 10 inches wide, of which several are sewn together to make a mat or screen.]
a. Coarse canvas made from various fibres, esp. jute, and used as sacking.
1820Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay III. 244 (Y.) Made into coarse cloth taut, by the Brinjaries and people who use pack bullocks, for making bags (gonies) for holding grain, &c. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tat, a name in India for cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius. [Hence 1864 in Webster; and in later Dicts.]
b. In tea-drying: a tray or shelf, freq. of hessian, on which green tea leaves are spread to wither.
1922H. J. Moppett Tea Manuf. 14 Withering tats must present a smooth even surface free from corrugations or pockets. Ibid. 15 Insufficient tat space is a bad fault. 1935W. H. Ukers All about Tea II. 515/1 Tat, a shelf made of wire or Hessian..on which green tea leaves are spread for withering. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXI. 863/2 After plucking, the leaf is withered by being spread on bamboo trays in the sun, or on withering tats within doors. 1958T. Eden Tea xiii. 150 Some factories have ‘mobile tats’. They are slung from pulleys travelling on overhead rails such that each individual bank of tats can be removed from its internal location and brought to a loading and weighing platform at any time. |