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单词 in a steep
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in a steep
a. The process of steeping or soaking; the state of being steeped, esp. in (to lay) a steep (obsolete), †in a steep (obsolete), in steep.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [noun]
steepc1430
soakingc1440
steepingc1440
imbibing1584
imbution1657
insuccation1664
soakage1855
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. i. 16 Take þe brothe, þe pouches & þe lyuerys wer sodoun in, in a stipe or on fayre brede.
1526 Grete Herball ccccxvii. sig. Y.vv And lete the fylynge lay a stepe a day and a nyght in vyneygre.
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 24v Let all these be beaten together and layed in stepe in Rose water.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. vii. 439 The same ought first to be cut or shred small, and then to lie infused or in steepe a whole day and a night in water or vinegre.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 175 Take Plantain, Rue, [etc.]..of each an handful,..lay them in steep in a Pint of old wash.
1709 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 74 For makeing 2 stip of mallt..£6.0.0.
1765 Museum Rusticum 3 220 If barley is left too long on the steep in the same water, the water will grow slimy.
1800 Act 41 Geo. III c. 6 (title) For shortening..the Time of keeping in Steep for malting, Barley damaged by Rain.
1851 A. Marshall in H. Schroeder Ann. Yorksh. (1851) I. 419 Turning the beets inside out for the second steep.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 267/2 81½ bushels of good dry barley will, after forty-eight hours steep, swell to exactly 100 bushels.
1905 W. R. Mackintosh Around Orkney Peat-fires (ed. 2) ii. 126 A farmer..had just taken his malt out of steep, when two excisemen paid him a visit.
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