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▪ I. gyle Brewing.|gaɪl|
Forms: 5 gyyl, gyylde, 5–6 gyl, 5–8 gile, 6 guyle, Sc. geill, 7 gaile, gial-, gule, 7–9 gail, guile, 8 gil, 8–9 gaal, 9 garl, geyle, guil-(vat), 4– gyle.
[a. Du. gijl, earlier ghijl ‘chylus, cremor cereuisiæ’ (Kilian), connected with gijlen to ferment. Of obscure origin; Franck suggests that it may be related to geil luxuriant in growth; see gole a. Cf. F. guiller (of beer) to ferment, work off the yeast.]
1. A brewing; the quantity of beer or ale brewed at one time.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 17 A double or treble quantitie of hoppes to an ordinary guile of Strong Beere. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4028/4 Several Guiles of Drink brewed by one Brisca Coburn, Brewer. 1730Swift Panegyrick on Dean 330 Teach Dennis how to stir the guile. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 101 Two coolers are indispensable when we make two kinds of beer from the same brewing, and even in single brewings, called gyles, if small beer is to be made. 1844T. Webster Encycl. Dom. Econ. 574 Entire gyle, when there is only one kind of beer from the same malt. Party gyles, a name used by the excise for making two kinds of beer from one malt. 1872Trans. R.I.B.A. 107 Striking one of the old lucifer matches over a tun, is sufficient to give the whole gyle a flavour of sulphur.
2. Wort in process of fermentation.
c1440Promp. Parv. 193/2 Gyylde, or newe ale (MSS. K. gile, H. gyyl, S. gyle of nw ale, Pynson gyle), celium, vel celia. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 21 Quantities of must or gile or wort are fermenting. 1860Cornh. Mag. II. 97, I have nothing better to offer you, than the skimmings of skimmed milk, and the gyle of thrice-brewed malt. 1871Q. Rev. CXXXI. 401 As soon as the wort is sufficiently cool, it is run off into a vessel, called a fermenting tun or square; a quantity of yeast is then mixed with it, it begins to ferment, and is called a gyle.
3. A ‘gyle-tun’.
1836Penny Cycl. V. 404/1 The next operation, that of fermentation, is carried on in a vessel called a gyle, or fermenting tun, which is either of a square or round shape. 1875in Knight Dict. Mech.
4. attrib. and Comb.: gyle-dish, a funnel for pouring liquor into casks; † gyle-house, the place where the gyle was set to cool; † gyle-tub, gyle-tun = gyle-fat; † gyle-wort (see quot.), ? = grout n.1 2 b.
1674Ray N.C. Words 20 The *Gail or Guile-dish; the Tun dish.
1334–5Durh. Acc. Rolls 525 Carpentar, pro opere de *Gylhous bracine, 13 li. 12s. 10d. 1498Nottingham Rec. III. 297 Ye bakhows; ye gylhows. 1567Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 279 It'm In The Gile Howse one gile fatt, ij tubbes. 1662Lamont Diary (Maitld. Club) 151 Johne Rattray..being in the garden yearde, sneding tries on the north dyke, ouer against the coall-stabell, for the gyle-house. 1568*Gile tub [see gyle-fat]. 1596in Unton Inv. (1841) 3 In the Brewehowse.—Item..one gyle tubbe.
1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 119 Set it in the *Guile-Tun, till it gathers a Head, which must be skimmed off. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 102 These fermenting tuns are commonly called gyle-tuns, or working tuns, and are either square or circular.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Chelid[on]ium minus, the herbe called *gylewoorte.
▪ II. gyle
obs. form of guile. |