tap-hose Now dial.
(ˈtæphəʊz)
Also 7 tapwaze, 8 -owze, 9 -ooze, -wees.
[f. tap n.1
The precise sense in which hose is used in the second element is not clear; in later use it has been associated with other words, esp. ooze, wase, bundle of straw.]
A strainer placed over the tap-hole in a mash-tub or the like, to prevent any solid matter from passing into or through the tap.
| 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 606/28 Quaxillum, a tappehose. 1480 Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls (Bundle 51, No. 3 b), i vatte, 1 taphose, 1 rother. 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 157 But first provide..a Tub or Kive, with a Tap, and Tap⁓waze. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 322 Till it [wort] runs clear, which it will not do at first tho' your Tap-hose be never so well adjusted. 1736 Bailey Househ. Dict. 232 Having an open headed cask with a tap, and tap-owze. 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Tap-ooze, Tap-whisk, the wicker strainer placed over the mouth of the tap in a mash⁓vat when brewing, to allow the wort to ooze through, and to prevent the grains passing. [See also tap n.1 8.] |