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单词 oast
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oastn.

Brit. /əʊst/, U.S. /oʊst/
Forms: Old English ast, Middle English 1600s nost, Middle English–1600s host, Middle English–1600s hoste, Middle English–1600s oste, Middle English–1700s ost, 1500s– oast, 1600s noast, 1600s oaste, 1600s–1700s oost, 1700s oust; English regional (chiefly southern) 1800s– haust, 1800s– oost, 1800s– ost (Yorkshire), 1800s– oste, 1900s– host.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch ast , est , eest (Dutch eest ), Middle Low German eist , probably < a suffixed form (verbal adjective) of the same Indo-European base as ad n.1; compare classical Latin aestās summer, aestus heat, boiling, bubbling, tide, and also the first element of the Germanic personal name Aistomodius , lit. ‘fiery mind’ (2nd. cent.). Compare east n.2Forms with initial n- show metanalysis (see N n.). Yorkshire is the only county outside the south of England in which Eng. Dial. Dict. records the word in use.
A kiln; (in later use) spec. one used to dry hops or malt; a building housing this.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > kiln for drying grain
kilnc725
oastOE
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
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 239 Siccatorium, cyln uel ast.
lOE Laws: Gerefa (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 454 On odene cylne macian—ofn & aste & fela ðinga sceal to tune.
a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 476 (MED) Host vel kulne [v.r. hestre; glossing Fr. torrail].
1382 in A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton Place-names Middlesex (1942) 150 (MED) Le Lymhostes juxta le Redeclyf.
a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 3 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 98 Take benes and dry hem in a nost or in an ovene.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 457 Wel derk & fer from ostis, bath, & stable.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 9v A Brewehouse with an Oast for drying of Malt.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxvii. §377 Having laid it on a kiln or noast, scorcheth it, and converteth it into malt.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 131 To contain..the hair of your Oost, or Kilin, or a Blanket tacked round the same about the edges.
1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 73 Ooast or East,..the same that Kiln or Lill [signifies in] Somersetshire, and elsewhere in the West.
1710 Act 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.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Suppl. Oust, or Oast, a Kiln for drying hops. Kent.
1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 242 It is necessary to keep the oast or kiln constantly at work.
1881 C. Whitehead Hops 24 Oasts and other buildings must be built.
1899 F. W. O. Ward Eng. Roses iii. 272 There are some things I value most, Beyond the fruits of vat and oast.
1916 E. Blunden Harbingers 24 When the dryer in his oast Had loaded up his lattice-floors.
1975 T. Allbeury Special Coll. vii. 49 Across the yard was an oast that held the repair shop and spares.
2000 Selfbuild & Design Oct. 100/4 (advt.) A large farmhouse with three oast roundels offering potential for conversion and renovation.

Compounds

oastcloth n. Obsolete a cloth or blanket on which hops or malt are placed to dry.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > utensils for hop-drying
oastcloth1388
oast-hair1562
beguel1737
hog1848
scuppet1892
1388 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 41 (MED) [One] ostcloth.
1462 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 556 Ostcloth.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 133 On this Bed without any Ost-cloath lay your Hops by basket-fulls.
1861 Illustr. Times 5 Oct. 221 Covered with the oastcloth, a sort of haircloth blanket, on which the hops are laid to dry.
oast-hair n. Obsolete a kind of hair sieve used in oast houses.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > utensils for hop-drying
oastcloth1388
oast-hair1562
beguel1737
hog1848
scuppet1892
1562 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 51 A wynowyng shete foure Sackes and an olde ost here.
1668 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Robert Joy of S. Peter in Thanet, hosthair weaver.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 252 The square above, immediately supporting the Oast-hair and the Mault.
1855 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) II. 319/1 Wear and tear of oast hairs, and hop bins, &c...£050.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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