oast

[ ohst ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. a kiln for drying hops or malt.

oast

/ əʊst /

noun

1. a kiln for drying hops
2. Also calledoast house a building containing such kilns, usually having a conical or pyramidal roof

Word History and Origins

Origin of oast¹

before 1050; Middle English ost, Old English āst; cognate with Dutch eest

Word History and Origins

Origin of oast¹

Old English āst; related to Old Norse eisa fire

Example Sentences

I have not made another French oast recipe since I started making it this way a few years ago.

From Salon

Christmas lunches are in full swing in the Oast House in Manchester.

From BBC

It's green belt land and many residents aren't happy - including Ian and Angela, who have lived in their converted oast house for 35 years.

From BBC

Historian Jennifer Oast, an expert on institutional slavery at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, expects that the Evanston program in particular will have a “snowball effect” on proposed federal legislation.

From Washington Post

Figuring out how to build reparation programs that address redlining and segregation from the past century is much different than those designed to bring redress for the slave trade, Oast said — primarily because individuals from the Jim Crow and civil rights era are still alive and can directly benefit.

From Washington Post

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