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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)

  1. A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
  2. A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
  3. (Roman Catholicism) A vessel for holding holy water.
  4. (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)

  1. (transitive) To put into a vat.
  2. (transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.

Results 254 Words with the letters VAT

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7 letter words with the letters VAT 
6 letter words with the letters VAT 
ABVOLT 14
ACTIVE 13
ADVECT 14
ADVENT 12
ADVERT 11
ATAVIC 13
AVATAR 10
AVAUNT 12
AVERTS 10
AVIATE 10
AVOCET 13
AVOSET 10
CAVEAT 13
CAVITY 15
CAVORT 13
CRAVAT 13
DATIVE 11
DAVITS 11
GAVOTS 12
LEVANT 12
LOVATS 11
NATIVE 11
OCTAVE 13
OCTAVO 13
OTTAVA 10
SAVANT 11
SAVATE 10
STARVE 10
STAVED 11
STAVES 10
TAVERN 11
THRAVE 12
TRAVEL 11
TRAVES 10
TRIVIA 10
VACANT 14
VACATE 13
VALETS 11
VALUTA 12
VANITY 13
VARLET 11
VASTER 10
VASTLY 13
VATFUL 15
VATTED 11
VAULTS 12
VAULTY 14
VAUNTS 12
VAUNTY 14
VELATE 11
VESTAL 11
VESTAS 10
VIATIC 13
VIATOR 10
VISTAS 10
VITALS 11
VITTAE 10
VOLANT 12
VOTARY 12
5 letter words with the letters VAT 
AVANT 10
DAVIT 10
GAVOT 11
LOVAT 10
VALET 10
VASTY 11
VATIC 12
VATUS 10
VAULT 11
VAUNT 11
VITAL 10
VOLTA 10
4 letter words with the letters VAT 
TAVS 8
VAST 8
VATS 8
VATU 9
VITA 8
3 letter words with the letters VAT 
TAV 7
VAT 7
2 letter words with the letters VAT 
AT 2
TA 2

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