'Mash tun' definitions:
Definition of 'Mash tun'
From: GCIDE
- Mash \Mash\, n. [Akin to G. meisch, maisch, meische, maische, mash, wash, and prob. to AS. miscian to mix. See Mix.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A mess; trouble. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'mash tun'
From: GCIDE
- Mash \Mash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mashing.] [Akin to G. meischen, maischen, to mash, mix, and prob. to mischen, E. mix. See 2d Mash.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat. [1913 Webster]