a floor on which malting grain is spread for drying, germination, etc.

= malt-floor n. at malt, n.1 compounds 2.

In various other technical applications. Scottish. A support inside a kiln that is used for drying grain. Obsolete.

An instrument, appliance, or device, for some service suggesting or taken to suggest that of a horse. In a malt-kiln: see quot. 1848.

A stove or fire chamber, typically cylindrical with a dome-shaped top, providing heat in an oast house or other building for drying materials.

A raised margin or edging around an oast, to confine the hops; also round a bed in a garden or hothouse, or round a hearth, to serve as a fender.