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wort

1

[ wurt, wawrt ]

noun

  1. the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.


wort

2

[ wurt, wawrt ]

noun

  1. a plant, herb, or vegetable (now usually used only in combination):

    figwort.

wort

/ wɜːt /

noun

  1. in combination any of various unrelated plants, esp ones formerly used to cure diseases

    liverwort

    spleenwort

  2. the sweet liquid obtained from the soaked mixture of warm water and ground malt, used to make a malt liquor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wort1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English wyrt; cognate with German Würze spice; akin to wort 2

Origin of wort2

before 900; Middle English; Old English wyrt root, plant; cognate with Old High German wurz, Old Norse urt herb, Gothic waurts root; akin to root 1, Old Norse rōt, Latin rādīx, Greek rhíza
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wort1

Old English wyrt root, related to Old High German warz, Gothic waurts root
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Example Sentences

It is made, as the label narrates “with traditional mash hopping and without wort boiling.”

It is unpasteurized and unfiltered, and the wort reaches the boiling point but never boils.

Where Carroll is “steady,” White tends to be “the worry-wort.”

Boil them with the wort, two hours, from the time it begins to boil.

What avails the dram of brandy while it swims chemically united with its barrel of wort?

They sat down on the sour stony land among the rag-wort and teazles and feverfew.

The plump-looking navel-wort, possibly introduced by him, may be seen peeping from crevices in the walls.

It is known as the Glass-wort, being full of a substance useful in making glass.

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