underbackn.
Brewing.
a. A vessel placed below the mash-tub or mash-tun to receive the raw wort when let out from this.
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1635 MS Accts. Toke Estate (Kent) f. 178 Underbacks in the bruehouse.
1686 in Essex Rev. (1906) XV. 173 One mashing tubb, and underback.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Brewing When all is run out into the Receiver, or Under-Back, lade or pump out your second Liquor.
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 203 The first wort is then let out in a small stream into the under~back.
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xcviii. 326 Large fats, or vats, (containing..wood ashes) with under-becks.
1828 Hull Rockingham 14 June 84/2 Three large guile tubs, several mash tubs and under becks.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. vi. 159 When the tap has been set, and the worts are allowed to run from the mash-tun, the transparent liquor is received into a large vessel called the underback.
1839 Hist. Chesterfield Antiq. 274 The instrument used in brewing, which is now called by some a betony, and by others an underbeck.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Oct. 6/1 A huge display of saccharometers, hydrometers,..false bottoms, copper underbacks, and live steam injectors.
b. (See quot. 1875.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > manufacture of other foodstuffs > [noun] > vinegar manufacture > vessels or vats used in vinegar manufacture
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2679/2 The name underback is also applied to a similar vessel in a vinegar factory.
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