maltings

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And it's not even the 'real' smell, but the smell at one remove: not the earthy scent of the maltings but a careful chemical imitation; not the dung heap of history, but the fantasy of that dung heap.

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  • "We see maltings as part of our core business, but that is where we draw the line," he says. —  Engineering News | Home
  • And it's not even the 'real' smell, but the smell at one remove: not the earthy scent of the maltings but a careful chemical imitation; not the dung heap of history, but the fantasy of that dung heap. —  needled
  • On the 16th June, 1785, there was a fire at Biggleswade, which in the space of less than five hours burnt down one hundred and three dwelling-houses and nine maltings. —  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
  • Our boat was what I, speaking unprofessionally, should call a small sea-boat, but I believe she was built years ago at Strand-on-the-Green, the pretty old village with maltings and poplar trees that fringes the river below Kew Bridge. —  The Naturalist on the Thames
  • At the recent Brewery Exhibition, some of the machinery used in these new maltings was shown in action by M.ssrs.H. Stopes & Co., together with drawings of a malting constructed at Troyes for M. Bonnette under —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
 

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