| 单词 | cockle oast |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockle oast General use as a modifier, as cockle oast, cockle stove, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > kiln oastOE malt-kiln1538 malting kiln1641 east1669 plate kiln1738 cockle oast1743 hop-kiln1784 hop-oast1818 cockle stove1877 sirocco1890 1743 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) 257 The finest Way of drying Malts..is to do it in a Cockle-Oast-Kiln. 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 243 Where..a cockle oast is made use of, sea coal is mostly employed. 1877 D. K. Clark Man. Rules, Tables, & Data for Mech. Engin. 488 Sylvester's cockle-stove is constructed of wrought-iron, ¼ inch thick. 1970 N. Harvey Hist. Farm Buildings Eng. & Wales iii. 58 By the middle of the eighteenth century they had developed the more sophisticated cockle kiln, in which flues from enclosed stoves circled the inner walls and discharged smoke and fumes through a chimney. 1992 M. A. Tomlan Tinged with Gold v. 162 The cockle oast, or cockle stove, was the earliest cast-iron hop-drying aid. < as lemmas |
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