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maltery en · NOUN

Etymology

From malt + -ery.

Meanings

1. (rare) A malthouse.
   • Before the Assela Maltery was completed in 1984, most of the malt used in the breweries had to be imported: in 1983/84 only 20 per cent of the malt used was supplied locally. After the Assela maltery began operations output increased rapidly during the mid-1980s, reaching 11,000 tonnes in FY1988, 110 per cent of nominal installed capacity. 1991, Ethiopia, new directions of industrial policy, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 67:
   • The fermentation industries comprise of distilleries, breweries and malteries. 2008, T.N. Khoshoo, Environmental Concerns And Strategics, page 113:
   • The foregoing represents the malteries whose product is disposed of by sale to brewers having no malteries connected with their breweries. 1886, George Henry Thurston, Pittsburgh's Progress, Industries and Resources, 1886, page 176:

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