mashing, vbl. n.
(ˈmæʃɪŋ)
[f. mash v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of mash v.1 a. Brewing. The action or process of mixing malt with warm water to form wort.
| 13.., 1532, 1573 [see mashing-fat, -tub in c below]. 1692 Y-worth Art Distill. 9 Pouring on as much warm Liquor as you intend to make use of in that Mashing. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 318 In all the Mashings..before you let it run out, you draw out some of the Liquor first, and see if it run clear. 1822 J. Imison Sci. & Art II. 156 When the mashing is completed the tun is covered in. 1887 Barnard Whisky Distill. 10 The mashing with hot water on the same grains was then repeated. |
b. In other senses of the verb.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 328/2 Maschynge, mixtura, mixtio. 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 31 This iustifieth..the Adiaphorist in all his mixtures and meashings with poperie. 1818 Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 472 A mashing up of proceedings at police-offices along with scraps of plays, gambling-house news and boxers' slang. 1877 Le Conte Elem. Geol. iii. (1879) 253 A mashing together horizontally. |
c. attrib. (
cf. mash n.1 5), as
mashing-back,
mashing-gear,
mashing machine,
mashing machinery,
mashing oar,
mashing rake,
mashing staff,
mashing stage,
mashing-stick,
mashing-tub,
mashing-tun,
mashing-vat (
† mashing-fat),
mashing water.
| 1889 Barnard Noted Breweries I. 23 *Mashing backs for the reception of weak worts. |
| Ibid. 22 They [sc. tuns] all possess double-acting *mashing-gear. |
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 113 Fig. 106 is the *mashing-machine. |
| 1830 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 224 The *mashing machinery should be kept in motion for two or three hours. |
| 1826 Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 233 He has..lost a finger in a *mashing-mill. |
| 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 403/2 [The malt in the mash-tub] is worked up by means of instruments termed *mashing oars. |
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 296/2 The Pole is termed..a *Mashing Staff. |
| 1889 Barnard Noted Breweries II. 299 Leaving the *mashing stage we descended to the underback room below the tuns. |
| 1830 ‘B. Moubray’ Dom. Poultry, etc. 317 A Funnel, *Mashing-stick, Casks. |
| 1573 Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) III. 60 One *mashtowinbe [read mashintowbe]. 1707 Mortimer Husb. 565 Put one third part of it into the Meshing-tub. 1865 Pall Mall G. 17 May 7 One of the supervisors..found in the mashing tub five quarters, two bushels, and seven gallons of malt. |
| 13.. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. (Camb. MS.) in Rel. Ant. II. 81/1 *Mahssingfate [sic], keuerel. 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 679/2 He maye happe ere aught long, to fal into the messhing fatte. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece i. vi. 285 Be sure you cover your Meshing-fat very well. |
| 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 272 *Mashing-Vat. |
| 1830 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 89 Well-mellowed malt will permit the use of a hotter *mashing water. |