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
Oram set up her own home studio in a converted rural oast house in Kent.
From Nature
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 Literature
With their pyramid-shaped roofs – topped with skylights – the buildings are reminiscent of English oast houses.
From The Guardian
The image depicts an oast house on a hop farm - a familiar sight in the Kent countryside.
From BBC
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