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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.
{Mashing tub}, a tub for making the mash in breweries and
distilleries; -- called also {mash tun}, and {mash vat}.
- To the literary mind, it called up comfortingly noble images of gaunt men in hob-nailed boots gathering under great iron wheels, or women in shawls mashing tea by blackened cottage hearths.
- He was sitting behind an enormous desk in the Hotel de Crillon in Paris this week gently mashing an unlit cigar. 'Can I offer you a cigar?' he said. Thank you - I've given them up. 'I have too.