malt
Plural: malts
Noun
- a milkshake made with malt powder
- a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
- a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
- Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
- Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
- A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
- Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
Verb
Verb Forms: malted, malting, malts
- To treat or combine something, especially grain, with malt.
- treat with malt or malt extract
- "malt beer"
- turn into malt, become malt
- convert grain into malt
- convert into malt
- To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
- To become malt.
- To drink malt liquor.
Examples
- I had to MALT my dictionary’s definition to make it more digestible for new Scrabble players.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.
Synonyms
malt liquor, malted, malted milk
Scrabble Score: 6
malt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmalt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
malt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary