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malting, vbl. n.|ˈmɒltɪŋ, -ɔː-|
[f. malt v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of making malt or of converting into malt.
c1440Promp. Parv. 324/1 Maltynge, brasiatura (P. brasiacio). 1467,1585[see 3]. 1626Bacon Sylva §647 Barley, (as appeareth in the Malting,) being steeped in Water three dayes.. will sprout. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 90 The variety of labour, required in husbandry, in malting, in carriage and distillation. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 172 Malting is generally a business of itself. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 105 Maize..has also been employed to make beer; but its malting is somewhat difficult. 1885H. Stopes Malt & Malting xiv. 224 A comparatively new form of malting is known as the ‘pneumatic system’.
2. A malt-house.
1846M. A. Richardson Local Hist. Table Bk. V. 30 A spacious malting..belonging to Mr. Richard Robinson, brewer. 1870Daily News 18 June, An old malting, situated about nine miles from Cambridge, was burned down. 1887W. Rye Norfolk Broads 77 A strange..village..chiefly composed of maltings and other buildings connected with beer brewing.
3. attrib. and Comb., as malting barley, malting business, malting district, malting sample, malting time, etc.; malting-floor, house, kiln, office = malt floor, house, etc.
1467Bury Wills (Camden) 46 That the seid Denys haue..esement in the maltynghows joyned therto. Ibid., Duryng maltyng tyme. 1585Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 167 The Maltinge House. 1637Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 84 The maulting business goes on, but with some restrictions. 1641Milton Animadv. 58 Though they keep back their sordid sperm..and turne them to their malting-kils. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6196/5 A large Malting Office. 1764Museum Rust. III. li. 219 Many of the farms have malting-offices annexed to them. 1813Examiner 12 Apr. 240/2 Fine Malting Barley. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 146 Inferior malting samples frequently fetch little more than feed oats of good quality. 1840Cottager's Man. 10 in Libr. Usef. Knowl. Husb. III, The bruised grain..is said to be as complete as if it had lain a fortnight on the malting-floor. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 189 The malting business is extensively prosecuted at Ware. |