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keeve
Part of speech: NounA large vessel for fermenting liquors; a mashing- tub.
Part of speech: VerbTo set in a keeve for fermentation; to tilt a cart.
Usage examples "keeve":- Boiled the first copper; drew the fire; then ran ten inches of boiling hot water into the keeve; added two inches of cold water, mixed both well together, which made up at 168; then put in the malt gradually, mashing all the time, for about half an hour; the mash being thin, did not require a longer operation. - "The American Practical Brewer and Tanner", Joseph Coppinger.
- 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. - "The American Practical Brewer and Tanner", Joseph Coppinger.
- Judge Keeve loved law as a science and studied it philosophically. - "The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut", M. Louise Greene, Ph. D..