oast
Americannoun
noun
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a kiln for drying hops
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Also called: oast house. a building containing such kilns, usually having a conical or pyramidal roof
Etymology
Origin of oast
before 1050; Middle English ost, Old English āst; cognate with Dutch eest
Example Sentences
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I have not made another French oast recipe since I started making it this way a few years ago.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2022
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 • Sep. 30, 2021
The image depicts an oast house on a hop farm - a familiar sight in the Kent countryside.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2017
For almost two decades, Butlin lived in the Kentish oast house which had been Kent Opera's office.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011
The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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