vatting

[vat-ing]

noun

the stage of winemaking during which the expressed juice of grapes has been placed in vats and left to ferment.

Origin of vatting

First recorded in 1835–45; vat + -ing¹

vat

[vat]

noun

a large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat.

Chemistry.

a preparation containing an insoluble dye converted by reduction into a soluble leuco base.
a vessel containing such a preparation.

verb (used with object), vat·ted, vat·ting.

to put into or treat in a vat.

Origin of vat

before 1100; Middle English (south); Old English fæt vessel; cognate with Old Norse fat vessel, German Fass keg

Related formsun·vat·ted, adjective

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Examples from the Web for vatting

Historical Examples of vatting

By employing more efficient crushing machinery this system of vatting is rendered quite unnecessary.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I
Arnold Cooley
The vatting might be suppressed if the apples were so comminuted as to give out their juice more readily.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure

British Dictionary definitions for vatting

vat

noun

a large container for holding or storing liquids

chem a preparation of reduced vat dye

verb vats, vatting or vatted

(tr) to place, store, or treat in a vat

Word Origin for vat

Old English fæt; related to Old Frisian fet, Old Saxon, Old Norse fat, Old High German faz

VAT

abbreviation for (in Britain)

value-added tax: a tax levied on the difference between the cost of materials and the selling price of a commodity or service

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Word Origin and History for vatting

vat

early 13c., southern variant (see V) of Old English fæt "container, vat," from Proto-Germanic *fatan (cf. Old Saxon, Old Norse fat, Old Frisian fet, Middle Dutch, Dutch vat, Old High German faz, German faß).