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▪ I. oast|əʊst|
Forms: α. 1 ást, (4 a nost), 4–9 ost, 4–7 host(e, 6 oste, 7 oost, 8 oust, 6– oast. β. 5 est, 7 east, eest.
[OE. ást, corresp. to MLG. eist, Du. eest, formerly also eist:—OTeut. *aisto-z from *aiđto-z, f. root aidh, weak grade idh, iđ, aiđ (Skr. idh) to burn, whence also OE. ád, OHG. eit blazing pile, funeral pyre, and, outside Teut., L. ædes, OLat. aidis hearth, house, æstus heat, æstās summer, Gr. αἶθος heat, Irish aedh heat. Oast is the native form; est, eest, east, introduced from Flanders.]
1.
†a. orig. = kiln.
b. Later, A kiln for drying malt or hops, now spec. for drying hops.
c1050Suppl. ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 185/30 Siccatorium, cyln, uel ast. 1380Anc. Deeds C. 364 (Pub. Rec. Office), [Grant by John Haddele of a cottage, &c. to Peter atte Hacche, near] ‘les lymhostes’. c1390Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. 4 Take benes and dry hem in a nost or in an ovene. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 457 Wel derk & fer from ostis, bath & stable. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 9 b, A Brewhouse with an Oast for drying of Malt. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 150 To contain..the hair of your Oost or Kiln, or a Blanket tacked round the same about the edges. 1710Act 9 Anne c. 13. §8 No Person..shall..make use of any Oust Storehouse or other Place or of any Kiln for curing or keeping of Hops. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) II. 242 It is necessary to keep the oast or kiln constantly at work. 1881Whitehead Hops 24 Oasts and other buildings must be built.
2. Comb. oast-cloth, oast-haire (see quot. 1861); oast-house, a building containing a kiln for drying hops; also the whole structure composing a kiln.
1410in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 546/2 *Hoste cloth. 1462Ibid. 556/2 Ostcloth. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 153 On this Bed, without any Oost-cloth, lay your Hops by Basket-fulls. 1861Illustr. Times 5 Oct. 221 Covered with the oastcloth, a sort of haircloth blanket, on which the hops are laid to dry.
1668Canterb. Marriage Licences (MS.), Robert Joy of S. Peter in Thanet, *hosthair weaver. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 252 The square above, immediatly supporting the Oast-hair and the Mault.
1764Museum Rusticum I. 3 These pokes [of hops] are..carried..to the *oust-house, where the hops are to be dried. 1882K. Lee West. Wildfl. I. 140 He passed to a rick-yard and oast-house beyond.
▪ II. oast, oastess(e
obs. forms of host, hostess n. |