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Definition vat
Etymology
From Middle English vat, a variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup; casket; division”), 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.
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. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)
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.
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