malt

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  1. noun Grain, usually barley, that has been allowed to sprout, used chiefly in brewing and distilling.
  2. noun An alcoholic beverage, such as beer or ale, brewed from malt.
  3. noun See malted milk.
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  • SPEEDY: "Me and Flasher are heading over to The Silver Palace for a malt, and to dig the jukebox." —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • Single malt is an acquired taste, but fortunately there seems to be one for everyone. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • German malt, assertive hops, and Brett funkiness came together for a mellowed out, drier incarnation of Hop Devil. —  RVABlogs
  • Early on Fanning Mills built heavy farm equipment here, including machines to separate the wheat and barley from its chaff, the slurry of which is called a malt. —  National Coalition for History
  • There may be a number of different reasons, but one of them is that although the basic ingredients of beer -- malt, hops and yeast -- are kosher, most breweries don't go to the effort of getting a hechsher. —  Jewish Exponent News
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  1. Middle English, from Old English mealt; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also mault, Scots maut; from Middle English malt, from Anglo-Saxon mealt (= Old Saxon malt = Dutch mout = Middle Low German molt, malt = Old High German Middle High German G. malz = Icelandic Danish Swedish malt: cf. French malt = Spanish Portuguese Italian malto, from Teutonic), from meltan (preterit mealt), melt, dissolve: see melt.
  2. from malt, n.
 

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