ˈcheese-vat, † ˈcheese-fat
[see vat.]
The vessel or mould in which the curds are pressed and the cheese shaped in cheese-making.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxxiv. (1495) 904 Chese is wronge other pressyd in a chese fatte. 1401 Pol. Poems II. 99 Thi tong likkith the chesefat, and the garner also. c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 793 Hec sissma, a sches⁓fatte. 1577 B. Googe tr. Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 147 The Milke commeth to a Curd, which is straightwaies put into Formes, or Cheesefattes, and pressed. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece 121 Turn it out of that Cheese-fat. |
| c 1640 J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 303 Cheesevates, cheeseclouts and other perticulars. 1764 Harmer Observ. x. iv. 155 Baskets made of rushes, or palm, are the cheese-vats of Barbary. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 247/1 Cheese vats or moulds turned out of solid elm wood. |