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[maʃ], (Verb)
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- reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it
(e.g: mash the beans to a paste)
- (in brewing) mix (powdered malt) with hot water to form wort
(e.g: the barley is dried out over peat fires and mashed with water which flows through peat ground)
- (with reference to tea) brew or infuse
(e.g: I've just mashed a pot of tea)
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Old English māsc (as a brewing term), of West Germanic origin; perhaps ultimately related to mix
[maʃ], (Noun)
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- a soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid
(e.g: pound the garlic to a mash)
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Old English māsc (as a brewing term), of West Germanic origin; perhaps ultimately related to mix
[maʃ], (Abbreviation)
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- mobile army surgical hospital
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