Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A kiln for drying hops or malt or drying and curing tobacco.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kiln to dry hops or malt. See cut in preceding column.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a kiln for drying hops
Etymologies
- Middle English ost, Anglos Saxon ast a kiln, Latin aedes a hearth or house (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ost, from Old English āst. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Bine is derived from "bind" the flexible stem of a plant rather than "vine"; oast may be related to an Indo-European word for "fire.”
“Hop to It bines, oast Hops grow on 20-foot-long plants called bines that climb a trellis of twine and wire strung from tall poles.”
“The plants produce cone-like flowers that are picked at the end of summer and dried in an oast—a kiln-heated barn that traditionally had pointed turrets with air vents on top.”
“In Kent, it is oast houses topped with white cowls and weather vanes.”
“The archive includes some of his earliest writings, including a wonky drawing of an oast house made when he was 10, carefully labelled "from Siegfried for Mamsy".”
The Guardian: Siegfried Sassoon archive goes on show at Cambridge
“Not your typical Rowland Hilder either ... quite often purchased as a 'Boots' print and featuring tip-carts, mangold wurzles, oast houses and wintery trees they're even disappearing from the car boot sales as the 'ironic decor' set pick up prints of The Green Girl along with the quintessentially English RH.”
“I find the choice of a trio of Kent oast houses in the background interesting; this was a time when these vernacular buildings in the landscape would have typified the country life being sort after by the post war newly well-off.”
“This is, I realize, the chestnut-harvesting equivalent of a Kentish oast house: a miniature chestnut-drying house, a secadou.”
“The BBC has morphed in the oast few days into the Hamas Broadcasting Corporation, wilfully spinning events to suit their Gazan soul-mates.”
“Begins with a B and an R and rhymes with ook oast.”
Lists
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Tolkien's archaisms
sigaldry, moot, kine, fey, eyot, ghylls, gangrel, glede, ilexes, laved, niggard, league and 44 more...
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My Favourite Kind
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House, Sweet House
"House" words and phrases, literal and figurative. If another word comes before "house" in the phrase, it's listed on its own; if the phrase starts with "house," I've listed the part that comes aft...
publishing, brokerage, bridge, deck, smoke, road, vaudeville, whore, of representatives, of ill repute, of worship, movie and 174 more...
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puzzlers
words learned from crossword puzzles
ott, ogee, ulee, aida, cleek, stlo, yser, eero, sniggle, nostrum, oxlip, agist and 32 more...
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around bend words
IE roots ank-, ant- and others
angle, ankle, ankylosaur, england, anchor, ancon, elbow, ankylosis, ancylostomiasis, hook, uncinate, uncus and 66 more...
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Tweets
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asativum First you've gotta cotch 'em. Jul 6, 2008
dontcry Is that where hopscotch comes from? ;-) Jul 6, 2008
trivet a usually conical kiln used for drying hops, malt, or tobacco -- called also oast·house. Apr 24, 2007