Vat Definition

văt
vats, vatted, vatting
noun
vats
A large container for holding liquids, as those to be used in a manufacturing process or those to be stored for fermenting or ripening.
Webster's New World
A liquid containing a vat dye.
Webster's New World
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
Wiktionary
(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
Wiktionary

(dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)

Wiktionary
verb
vats, vatted, vatting
To place or store in a vat.
Webster's New World
To treat in a vat.
Webster's New World

To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.

Wiktionary
abbreviation
Value-added tax.
Webster's New World
Vatican.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Vat

Noun

Singular:
vat
Plural:
vats

Origin of Vat

  • From Middle English vat, a variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask"), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup; casket; division "), from Proto-Germanic *fatÄ… (“vessel"), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel"). Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub"), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat"), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat"), Danish fad (“saucer, dish"), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat"), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer"). See fat.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English variant of fat from Old English fæt

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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