Definitions for malts

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malts malt

Spelling: [mawlt]

IPA: /mɔlt/

Malts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in malts (almst).

Definitions for malts

noun

1. germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
2. any alcoholic beverage, as beer, ale, or malt liquor, fermented from malt.
3. whisky, as Scotch, that is distilled entirely from malted barley.
4. malted milk (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to convert (grain) into malt by soaking it in water and allowing it to germinate.
2. to treat or mix with malt, malt extract, etc.
3. to make (liquor) with malt.

verb (used without object)

1. to become malt.
2. to produce malt from grain.

Origin of malts

before 900; Middle English; Old English mealt; cognate with Old Norse malt, German Malz; akin to melt¹

Examples for malts

The brewers are glad to get Cotswold barley for malting purposes.

We may say, then, that by the malting of barley we lose at least 2½ cwt.

This corresponds to a malting increase of about 7%, which is a high yield.

Barley intended for malting should be fertilized to this end.

The first and most important by reducing the tubers to a pulp, and malting the entire mass.

Brewing and malting are carried on, and there is some trade in coal and iron.

Upon a nice performance of the sweating process, which may be likened to malting, the value of the cocoa greatly depends.

malting are their best ploughs, their greatest traffic to sell ale.

The malting of grains, it will be remembered, is explained in Cereals.

Agricultural engines and implements are made, and malting is carried on.