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1223–4 Felsted Custumal in M. Chibnall Charters & Custumals Holy Trinity Caen (1982) 90 Debet facere duas melting' in anno.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 324 Maltynge [Winch. Maltyng], brasiatura.

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 49 in Jewell House The duste and tailes of the malt, which are left in malting.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §647 Barley, (as appeareth in the Malting,) being steeped in Water three dayes..will sprout.

1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 90 The variety of labour, required in Husbandry, in Malting, in Carriage and Distillation.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Malt Its plume, or acrospire as the adepts in malting call it.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 173 Malting is generally a business of itself.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 105 Maize..has also been employed to make beer; but its malting is somewhat difficult.

1885 H. Stopes Malt & Malting xiv. 224 A comparatively new form of malting is known as the ‘pneumatic system’.

1990 Banking World Dec. 13 (advt.) Once the malting is over, the barley wash becomes part of the island's natural food chain.

1726 D. Eaton Let. 16 Nov. (1971) 78 The barley is very good. I suppose your Lordship would have it made at Mr. Plyth's malting, so we shall send it when it is ready.

1846 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Hist. Div. V. 30 A spacious malting..belonging to Mr. Richard Robinson, brewer.

1870 Daily News 18 June An old malting, situated about nine miles from Cambridge, was burned down.

1887 W. Rye Month on Norfolk Broads 77 A strange..village..chiefly composed of maltings and other buildings connected with beer brewing.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar. 7/1 The pier maltings on the Berwick side and several houses in West End, Tweedmouth, were flooded.

1988 N. Tranter Flowers of Chivalry (BNC) 137 They [sc. Flemings] had brought much wealth and trade to the town, many having built fine houses as well as their mills, maltings, breweries and warehouses.

1813 Examiner 12 Apr. 240/2 Fine Malting Barley.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. at Sturge, Joseph His firm..reduced their returns by refusing to receive consignments of malting barley.

1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 2003/1 Malting barley varieties must satisfy as many as 22 quality traits in addition to those related to adaptation and productivity.

1637 News-lett. C. Rossingham in S. Gardiner Documents Proc. against W. Prynne (1877) 84 The maulting business goes on, but with some restrictions.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. i. 209 The malting business is extensively prosecuted at Ware.

1985 B. J. Bailey Guide Britain's Industr. Past (BNC) 122 The malting business became concentrated in the south-eastern and eastern counties of England.

1827 Times 18 Oct. 4/2 In this part of the world, which is a large malting district, the maltsters commenced their usual operations.

1600 J. Smith in E. V. Hall Testam. Papers (1933) ii. 41 My wife shall have and enjoye during her naturall lyfe to her proper use..all the maltinge roomes w^th free egresse and regresse for the beste use of them.

1885 in N.E.D. at Attemerator sb. An arrangement for regulating the temperature of the fermenting wort, and of the malting-rooms.

1996 Country Living (Electronic ed.) 1 July New brands [of beer] are sprouting on store shelves faster than grains of barley on a moist malting room floor.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 146 Inferior malting samples frequently fetch little more than feed oats of good quality.

1986 Farmers Weekly 3 Jan. 10/1 We will aim to produce top quality seed and milling and malting samples able to demand worthwhile premiums.

1721 J. Steuart Let. 7 Apr. in Let.-bk. (1915) 147 Despatch is necessary now in the Malting Season.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxii. 243 They were indifferently well assisted by the old maltster, who, when the malting season from October to April had passed, made himself useful upon any of the bordering farmsteads.

1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 Duryng maltyng tyme.

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. i. sig. B^v On the South side of the base-court you shall builde your Hay-barnes,..and Malting flowres.

1840 Cottager's Man. 10 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III The bruised grain..is said to be as complete as if it had lain a fortnight on the malting-floor.

1971 Country Life 2 Dec. 1580/1 Two or three of these kilns may be seen at the end of the long malting floors.

1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 That the seid Denys haue..esement in the maltynghows joyned therto.

1632 Minute 9 Feb. in Minutes Norwich Court Mayoralty 1630–1 (Norfolk Rec. Soc.) (1942) 223 Abraham Yongs doth use that Maltinge howse.

1894 Times 12 June 3/6 According to the true construction of the devise I think the words ‘thereto belonging’ refer to the malting-house.

2003 Austral. Financial Rev. 13 Mar. (Property section) 57 The thrust of the objections centre on the demolition of the grain silos. Heine has already agreed to keep the clock and a historic malting house in the new development.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 58 Though they keep back their sordid sperm..and turne them to their malting-kils.

1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 145/2 It [sc. the barn owl] inhabits churches, barns, old malting kilns, or deserted ruins of any sort.

1996 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 126 730 A malting kiln would be used specifically to dry germinating grain.

1677 Will of Alice Osborne in W. G. Arnott Place-names Deben Valley Parishes (1946) 21 My tenement called the Malting Office.

1710 Let. Patent 24 July in homepages.tesco.net (O.E.D. Archive) A sudden and terrible Fire did break forth..which..did burn down and Consume the Dwelling Houses, Shops, Malting Office, Barns, Stables and Out-houses.

1723 London Gaz. No. 6196/5 A large Malting Office.

1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 li. 219 Many of the farms have malting-offices annexed to them.

1894 Times 1 May 3/2 This action was tried at the last assizes... The testator..gave to the plaintiff by his will ‘the malting office, with the two adjoining cottages and the garden and out-offices thereto belonging’.

1298–1300 in N. Neilson Customary Rents (1910) 36 (MED) Et de xxvj s. v d. de opere ad braseam faciendam affirmato termino Annunciationis Beatae Mariae vocato maltingsilver.