stillagen.1
/ˈstɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstɪlɪdʒ/ 1. Brewing. A stand for casks. Cf. stilling n.3, stillion n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > cask stand
stall1538
gantry1574
stillage1596
stilling1604
scantling1632
stella1658
settle1695
stilt1701
still-yard1725
stalder1736
stillion1803
stallage1838
1596 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 5 In ye buttery..a rounde old table and ij stillages for bier.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 248/1 A stilladge in sellers, on which barrells are sett.
1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 337 And the tubs placed..upon a stillage, near to each other.
1883 Lancs. Brewer's Price List Casks should be placed on stillage, bung downwards.
1889 W. Westall Birch Dene III. 28 In one corner several casks on stillages.
2. In various industries, a stool or stand for keeping something from the ground. Now spec. a pallet, frame, or similar structure used for storage of goods. Also collective.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a stand or support to raise from the ground
lathe1476
stool1481
stallagec1500
stand1587
thrall1674
stock1688
horse1703
stage1797
sub-base1865
stillage1875
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > frame used for storage
stillage1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stillage, a low stool to keep cloths off the floor of a bleachery.
1963 K. Hudson Industrial Archaeol. vii. 111 Old fittings and furnishings which might well remain in situ at old factories..include..wooden stillages.
1970 Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 25 Sept. 629/1 Each stillage is 36 in × 24 in × 6 ft high, and provides storage for 150 headboards... Customers who take regular bulk deliveries are offered these stillages on loan.
1976 Listener 22 July Stacking of components in wooden stillage instead of metal bins.
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stillagen.2
/ˈstɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstɪlɪdʒ/ Chiefly U.S.
The residue remaining in a still after a fermentation, usually of grain or molasses, and removal of the alcohol by distillation.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > distilling > [noun] > residue
stillage1940
1940 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Apr. 11/7 The experiments..were designed to determine the value of distillers' dry rye grains and stillage as substitutes for other grains in feeding cattle for the market.
1945 Industr. & Engin. Chem. June 534/1 Distilleries processing molasses are frequently confronted with the problem of disposing of stillage.
1963 Agric. & Biol. Chem. XXVII. a19/2 (heading) Nutritional studies on the utilization of distiller's stillage.
1979 Nature 6 Dec. 551/1 The total output of stillage in Brazil is equivalent in biological oxygen demand to the untreated sewage produced by a city of 200 million inhabitants.
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stillagev.
/ˈstɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstɪlɪdʒ/ dialect.
transitive. To place (a barrel of ale, etc.) on a stand ready for use.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] > take from cask or cellar > place barrel on stand for use
stillage1854
1854 B. Brierley Tales & Sketches Lancs. Life (1866) II. 82 There was a barrel of ale ordered to be stillaged at the door of the Blue Elephant.
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