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n. A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.

n. A bleaching vat; a kier.

n. A large vat used in dressing ores.

v. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

v. To heave; to tilt, as a cart.

n. A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.

n. A bleaching vat; a kier.

n. A large vat used in dressing ores.

v. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.

v. To heave; to tilt, as a cart.

n. A large vat or tub used for various purposes, as for dressing ores in mining, for holding the lye in bleaching (in which sense it is also called a keir), as a brewers' mashing-tub, etc.

To put in a keeve for fermentation, etc.

To overturn or lift up, as a cart, so as to unload it all at once.

"Boil your copper, temper your liquor in the same to 185, and when ready, run it on your keeve a little at a time, putting in the malt and the water gradually together, mashing at the same time; when the whole of your malt is thus got in, continue the operation of mashing half an hour, cap with dry malt, and let your mash stand one hour and a half."

kier    heave