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vat
English
Etymology
From Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *fat? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væt/
- Rhymes: -æt
Noun
vat (plural vats)
- A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
- A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
- (Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.
- (dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
Translations
Verb
vat (third-person singular simple present vats, present participle vatting, simple past and past participle vatted)
- (transitive) To put into a vat.
- (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.114:
- He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.114:
Anagrams
- ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/
Etymology 1
From Dutch vatten
Verb
vat (present vat, present participle vattende, past participle gevat)
- to take
- to grasp
Etymology 2
From Dutch vat
Noun
vat (plural vate, diminutive vaatjie)
- barrel
Danish
Noun
vat
- cotton wool
Derived terms
- vatpind
- vattet
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch vat, from Old Dutch *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?.
Noun
vat n (plural vaten, diminutive vatje n or vaatje n)
- barrel, tank
- (biology) vessel
Synonyms
- ton
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch vat. Related to vatten.
Noun
vat m (uncountable)
- grip, both literal and figurative
- geen vat krijgen op ... — not being able to get a grip on ...
Derived terms
- handvat
- vatten
Verb
vat
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vatten
- imperative of vatten
Volapük
Etymology
From German Wasser, English water, and Dutch water.
Noun
vat (nominative plural vats)
- water
Declension
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puncheon
English
Alternative forms
- punchion
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ponchon, pounceon et al., and Middle French ponçon, poinchon et al., from Old French ponchon, from Latin p?ncti?nem (“act of piercing”). Doublet of punction.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?nt??n/
- Rhymes: -?nt??n
Noun
puncheon (plural puncheons)
- A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
- A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 7:
- he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].
- A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat.
- A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 7:
- A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground, also called duck boards, bog boards, or bog bridge.
- A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.
- A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:
- Once in the Grenada islands, when I and above eight others were pulling a large boat with two puncheons of water in it, a surf struck us, and drove the boat and all in it about half a stone's throw, among some trees, and above the high water mark.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205:
- Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8
- Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 6:
Related terms
- punch
puncheon From the web:
- = 318.226432 liters
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