Brewery
['brʊərɪ] or ['bruəri]
Definition
(n.) A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
Typist: Rudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Brew-house.
Editor: Ramon
Examples
- In the following year observation of work in a brewery roused his curi osity in reference to carbonic acid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Taking the brewery on my way back, I raised the rusty latch of a little door at the garden end of it, and walked through. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evaporated with its last reek of smoke. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Of course her father is able to do something handsome for her--that is only what would be expected with a brewery like his. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Malt is consumed, not only in the brewery of beer and ale, but in the manufacture of low wines and spirits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Uncle, calmly admiring his boots--No, my dear, not unless you want beer, that's a brewery. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In the porter brewery of London, a quarter of malt is commonly brewed into more than two barrels and a-half, sometimes into three barrels of porter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I could trace out where every part of the old house had been, and where the brewery had been, and where the gates, and where the casks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There was no house now, no brewery, no building whatever left, but the wall of the old garden. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It also possesses a remarkable resistance to corrosive acids and for this reason is the preferred material for tanks and vats in wineries, breweries, chemical works, mines, tanneries, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Eileen