Vats
[væts]
Examples
- The cloth, the greasy wool, the polluting dyeing-vats? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sides are then run through lime vats for the purpose of loosening the hair. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The cooking is done in great vats and in enormous electric ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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.
- Soaking in vats formerly occupied twelve or eighteen months, but under the new methods the time has been greatly reduced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the great curing room thousands of vats and tierces are piled, and the usual tierces hold about three hundred pounds of meat, while the vats hold nearly fifteen hundred pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Myra