gyle-fat

1) A vessel used in brewing, the vat in which the wort is left to ferment.

1341 Duas parvas cunas [sic] quć vocantur gylefatts, York

1405 ‘putting 4 great hoops around le Gilefat’, Selby

1481 3 worteledes, 1 maskefat, 1 gilefat, 1 stepefat, Thornhill

1529 selle theyre newe ayle furth of the gylffat, York

1559 one maskefat, one gylefat, a leade, Pontefract

1611 one bruinge panne, two tubs & a gilefatt, Cottingley

1676 1 guilefat, 3s

2 runlits, 3s

1 maskfat, 2s 6d, Barley

1700 Naomi Robinson, alehouse-keeper, was upp with her Gile fatt till two a clock in the morning, Wakefield.

spellings gile-fat
dates 1341 1405 1481 1529 1559 1611 1676 1700

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