malting

UK: /ˈmɔːltɪŋ/

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malting / ˈmɔːltɪŋ/ noun

1. a building in which malt is made or stored
   Also called: malt house

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malt /mɔlt/   n. 

1. Wine [uncountable] grain prepared by boiling and drying, used in brewing beer.
2. Wine [uncountable] an alcoholic beverage, as beer, fermented from malt.
3. Food malted milk (def. 2):
   [countable] a vanilla malt and a chocolate malt.

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malt  (môlt), n. 

1. Wine germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
2. Wine any alcoholic beverage, as beer, ale, or malt liquor, fermented from malt.
3. Wine whisky, as Scotch, that is distilled entirely from malted barley.
4. Food See malted milk (def. 2).

v.t. 

5. to convert (grain) into malt by soaking it in water and allowing it to germinate.
6. to treat or mix with malt, malt extract, etc.
7. to make (liquor) with malt.

v.i. 

8. to become malt.
9. to produce malt from grain.

• bef. 900; Middle English; Old English mealt; cognate with Old Norse malt, German Malz; akin to melt

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malt / mɔːlt/ noun

1. See malt liquor
2. short for malt whisky

verb

1. to make into or become malt
2. to make (something, esp liquor) with malt

Etymology: Old English mealt; related to Dutch mout, Old Norse malt; see also melt