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"Hop-drying kiln"

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4 lettersPronunciation /əʊst/Part of speech nounSorted aostStarts with OEnds with T1 clues
1O2A3S4T

Definitions

  1. a kiln for drying hops

Word origin

From Middle English ost, from Old English āst (“a kiln”), from Proto-Germanic *aistaz (“kiln”), from *aisǭ (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”). Cognate with Dutch eest (“kiln”), Middle Low German eiste (“kiln”), Latin aedes (“house; hearth”), Old English ād (“fire; funeral pyre”).

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