mashing-tub

_ A strainer placed before the faucet in the mashing-tub.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

A new kind of mashing-tub (fig. 4.) has been invented, which has a false bottom pierced with holes, through which the wort filters, instead of being drawn off by the spigot; and, by an improvement on this, the hot water is poured through a tube into the part of the mashing-tub which is below the false bottom, and suffered to rise up through the malt.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845