gyle-fat Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: see gyle and fat n.1
The vat in which the wort is left to ferment.
| 1341 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) I. 2 Duas parvas cunas [sic.: read cuuas] quæ vocantur gylefatts. 1483 Cath. Angl. 155/2 A Gilefatte, acromellarium. 1496 Nottingham Rec. III. 44 Unum gylefatte cum coopertorio et unum pully. 1533 Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 451 Ane brew fatt, ane geill fat, ane flesch fatt [etc.]. 1568 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 282 In ye Brewhouse. One gile tub, one maskin tub, and one gilefatt. 1674–90 Ray N.C. Words 39 The Gaile or Guile-Fat, the Vat in which the Beer is wrought up. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Brewhouse, The Mash-Fat should be ever near to the Head, the Cooler near to the Mash-Fat, and the Guile-Fat under the Cooler. 1764 T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 105 Though her guts and mazzard Work'd like a guile-fat. 1788 W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 330 Gaalfat, Guilefat, the vat in which new ale is set to ferment; also the liquor fermenting. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Gailfat. |