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MASHING
Verb
mashing
present participle of mash
Noun
mashing (countable and uncountable, plural mashings)
The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
The action of soaking malted barley etc, in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
The process of preparing tea in a teapot.
Anagrams
• Inghams, minhags, shaming
Source: Wiktionary
MASH
Mash, n.
Definition: A mesh. [Obs.]
Mash, n. Etym: [Akin to G. meisch, maisch, meische, maische, mash, wash, and prob. to AS. miscian to mix. See Mix.]
1. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
2. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
3. A mess; trouble. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.
Mash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mashing.] Etym: [Akin to G. meischen, maischen, to mash, mix, and prob. to mischen, E. mix. See 2d Mash.]
Definition: To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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