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  • His parents in their converted oast-house in the Kent countryside? —  EQMM,March-April2006
  • The confused and tumbled shoulders of its great base rose for maybe three thousand feet above the plain, and above them was reared half as high again its tall central cone, like a vast oast or chimney capped with a jagged crater. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Malay sailors brought the banana over the Indian Ocean to an island known as Madagascar (see the eastc oast of Africa in the figures to the right), where the people still speak a language similar to that spoken in Malaysia. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Malay sailors brought the banana over the Indian Ocean to an island known as Madagascar (see the southeastc oast of Africa in the figures to the right), where the people still speak a language similar to that spoken in Malaysia. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Families USA, a nonprofit group that advocates for affordable health care for all Americans, reports that 2.8 million North Carolinians lacked health insurance at some point during the oast two years. —  Raleigh Business News - Local Raleigh News | The Triangle Business Journal
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  1. Middle English ost, from Old English āst.

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  1. from Middle English oost, ost, from Anglo-Saxon āst (= Old Dutch est, ast, Dutch eest), a kiln, drying-house; akin to ād, a funeral pile, Latin ædes, house (hearth), Greek αἴθος, burning, heat, αἴθήρ, ether, etc.: see edify, ether, etc.
 

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