oast

• oust
• ost
• east (obsolete)

From Middle English ost, from Old English āst (“a kiln”), from Proto-Germanic *aistaz (“kiln”), from *aisǭ (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”). Cognate with Dutch eest (“kiln”), Middle Low German eiste (“kiln”), Latin aedes (“house; hearth”), Old English ād (“fire; funeral pyre”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊst/
• Rhymes: -əʊst

oast (plural oasts)

1. (British) A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.

• oast house

• hop
• hop garden
• hopping

• OTAs, SOTA, Sato, Sota, Taos, Tsao, as to, oats, stoa, taos, toas, tosa

oast

1. elative singular of uba