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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F. See

a vat.]

A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

A vat or cistern. See 1st

or BACK, n.

In navigation, a ferry-boat or praam.

In brewing, a large flat tub, or vessel, in which wort is cooled before boiling; hence called a cooler.

In distilleries, a vessel into which the liquor to be fermented is pumped, from the cooler, in order to be worked with the yeast.