mash-tub

At the end of the three hours, let off the wort from the mash-tub into the underback-tub, which has been previously placed under the spigot and faucet ready to receive it; pouring the first that runs out back into the mash, until the wort runs free from grains, etc.; now put the hops into the underback-tub and let the wort run out upon them.

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli

Fasten the tapwaist inside the mash-tub to the inner end of the faucet and spigot, taking care to place the mash-tub in an elevated position, resting upon two benches or stools.

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli

So certain other servants of the public feed the eye with gaudy advertisements of every generous liquor under heaven, and retail nothing but the sour ale of some crafty brewer who has contrived to bind them to his vats and his mash-tub.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

Magnificent among the lesser vessels of the fleet, "like some tall admiral," rides the enormous "mash-tub," while the astonished rats and mice are splashing about at its base in the dark waters, like sailors just washed, at midnight, from the deck, by a heavy sea.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

To a copper that holds 36 gallons, the mash-tub ought to be at least big enough to contain six bushels of malt, and the copper of liquor, and room for mashing or stirring it: The under back, coolers and working tubs, may be rather fitted for the conveniency of the room, than to a particular size; for if one vessel be not sufficient to hold your liquor, you may take a second.

The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States Samuel McHarry

His father was mad at his going, for he hath a great brewing going forward, and none to mind the mash-tub.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Many wondered how he could create such havoc in so short a time, but the boiler was gashed with holes, the worms chopped into bits, and the mash-tub was in splinters.

In Happy Valley John Fox 1891

Even in winter, when the snow is falling like bags of flour, and the river is chinking with ice, there is plenty to see and learn, or in the floods, when the water roars through the lifted hatches and the rush of the river throbs across the misty flats, and the weeds and sedges smell rank as the stream stews them in its mash-tub in the pool below the weir.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

Jist think uv thith feller, Hamp Hudson, to 'still the beer uv that mash-tub that Famus -- that nathty, stinkin', mangy dog -- was drownded in; and fur to think fur to bring it here fur to thell the nathty, stinkin 'whisky to hith neighbors, Cap'en Moore and company, and to the old sogers, what fout for yer libertith.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

The rest are all melancholy, standing or sitting in little squads, debating the mash-tub question.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859