different between oast vs hoast

English

Alternative forms

• oust
• east (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ost, from Old English ?st (“a kiln”), from Proto-Germanic *aistaz (“kiln”), from *ais? (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“to burn; fire”). Cognate with Dutch eest (“kiln”), Middle Low German eiste (“kiln”), Latin aedes (“house; hearth”), Old English ?d (“fire; funeral pyre”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??st/

Noun

oast (plural oasts)

1. (Britain) A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.

Derived terms

• oast house

Related terms

• hop
• hop garden
• hopping

Translations

Anagrams

• OTAs, SOTA, Sato, Sota, Taos, Tsao, as to, oats, stoa, taos, toas, tosa

Estonian

Noun

oast

1. elative singular of uba

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. (dialectal) A cough.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...].

Etymology 2

From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic *hw?st?n? (“to cough”).

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Verb

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. (intransitive, dialect) To cough.

Etymology 3

Variant forms.

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Verb

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hosta, oaths, shoat, shota