Mash
[mæʃ]
Definition
(noun.) mixture of ground animal feeds.
(noun.) a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing.
Typist: Vern--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A mesh.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
(n.) A mess; trouble.
(v. t.) 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.
Checker: Myrna
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Bruise, crush.
Checker: Susie
Definition
v.t. to beat into a mixed mass: to bruise: in brewing to mix malt and hot water together.—v.i. to act violently.—n. a mixture of ingredients beaten or stirred together as of bran meal &c. or bran and boiled turnips &c. for feeding cattle or horses: in brewing a mixture of crushed malt and hot water.—ns. Mash′ing; Mash′-tub Mash′ing-tub a tub in which the mash in breweries is mixed.—adj. Mash′y produced by mashing; of the nature of a mash.
Typist: Wanda
Examples
- A shoe that had not been vulcanized would mash down, spread, become sticky and go to pieces after a few hours’ wear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She lugged it home, cut it up, and boiled it in the big pot, mashed some of it with salt and butter, for dinner. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Edited by Bonita