stillionn.
/ˈstɪlɪən/ 1. A stand for a cask; a gantry. Also, a stand or frame on which pottery is placed in the drying kiln (Knight).
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > cask stand
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still-yard1725
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1803 Ann. Reg., Chron. 396/2 Mr. Madden..had water and beer butts thrown flat from the stillions.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 383 The casks are raised upon gawntrees or stillions.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2386/2 Stillion, a stand for casks. The rounds or cleansing vats of a brewery stand on stillions in a trough which conveys away the overflowing yeast.
2. (See quot. 1836.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > trough used in brewing
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1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 6 The beer..not suffered to remain in small quantities in the stillions or other utensils.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 404/2 A trough or stillion to catch the yest.
1871 G. Scamell Breweries & Maltings xv. 74 The yeast finding its way the best way it can into the stillion beneath.
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