oast housen.
/ˈəʊsthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈoʊstˌ(h)aʊs/ A building containing an oast, typically built of brick in a conical shape with a cowl on top.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > malt-house
malt-houseOE
oast house1287
malting house1469
malt-loft1529
malting office1677
malting1726
malt office1800
1287 in H. E. Salter Cartulary Hosp. St. John Baptist (1914) I. cxxxxiv. 130 Est illa domus que dicitur Osthous & est iuncta illa domus coquine predicti Iohannis in tenemento meo extra portam orientalem in suburbio Oxford.
1371 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 95 (MED) [The] osthous.
1764 Museum Rusticum 1 3 These pokes [of hops] are..carried..to the oust-house, where the hops are to be dried.
1882 K. Lee Western Wildflower I. 140 He passed to a rick-yard and oast-house beyond.
1891 A. Austin Narr. Poems 58 Gable and oasthouse, tile and thatch, Smiled softly in the sunset light.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cxviii. 627 A hop-garden was one of the sights connected with Philip's boyhood and the oast-houses to him the most typical feature of the Kentish scene.
1946 J. Masefield Land Workers in Poems 27 Many an oast-house, many a cider-press And many a meadow he had helped to tend.
2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Home section) 2 A former oast house with planning permission for conversion to a family home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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