† mash-fat Obs.
Forms: 4 massh-, masche-, 5 mach-, maysh-, masshe-, mesch-, 5–6 mas-, 5–7 mesh-, 6 mashe-, messhe, 8 mesch-, 5– mash-, and see fat n.1
A mashing-vat.
| 1335 in Riley Mem. Lond. (1868) 194 [One] masshfat [value 18d.]. 1465 Paston Lett. III. 435 A grete lede to brew v. comb malte with..a mayshsate [read mayshfate]. a 1529 Skelton E. Rummyng 190 The hennes ron in the mashfat. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 28 b, I..put the meale into a Mash Fatte. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 76 Mesh⁓fats for Brewing. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Brewing, Many put their Malt first into the Mesch-Fat, and then pour in their Liquor for the first Wort. |