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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the distillation of alcoholic liquors, a vessel to contain the wash or fermented liquid to be distilled, through which passes the pipe by which vapor is carried off from the still. This vapor undergoes partial condensation and thereby heats up the wash surrounding the pipe and allows of its being run into the still in an already hot state, thus economizing fuel.
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