![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oast (OHST) - n., a kiln for drying hops, malt, or tobacco.
Traditionally conical, and originally just hops and malt, as tobacco is a New World crop -- and this dates back to Old English āst, a kiln (ultimately from PIE root *h₂eydʰ, to burn/fire). Tolkien describes the fields outside Minas Tirith: "The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green." (Stick a pin in those garners.) (More spell-check amusement: it also knows Tirith.)
---L.
Traditionally conical, and originally just hops and malt, as tobacco is a New World crop -- and this dates back to Old English āst, a kiln (ultimately from PIE root *h₂eydʰ, to burn/fire). Tolkien describes the fields outside Minas Tirith: "The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green." (Stick a pin in those garners.) (More spell-check amusement: it also knows Tirith.)
---L.
