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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1667-1681
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Vat, Vautt, n. [South. ME ueat (a1225), vaat (c1380), vat (c1400).] = Fat n.1, a cask, tub, vat. — 1667 Edinb. B. Rec. X 26.
For eatch vautt of potashes weighting ane thousand fyve hundreth pund … For eatch barrell of wood ash [etc.] 1681 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 270.
The brewers use all devices to deceive the surveyors, by latent vats … and by moveable eiks to their vats … so that the gauging of their mask-vats … cannot reach the true quantity of their brewing
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