What is "maltster"

Usage examples of "maltster".

Byllinge soon became insolvent and turned over his nine-tenths interest to his creditors, appointing Penn and two other Quakers, Gawen Lawrie, a merchant of London, and Nicholas Lucas, a maltster of Hertford, to hold it in trust for them.

The maltster and the servants went pale, and so did all the other diners.

That makes it five against ten, and pretty soon Barrowclough and his nine are being helped out the door by the maltster and his brothers.

Dick Benyon called old Foster the maltster, and who had been Mayor of Henstead three several times.

IV Then messengers sped to the maltster, the auctioneer, miller, and all The seven sons of the farmer who housed in the range of his call.

He took to business as a maltster at Hoddesdon, and in his house was planned the famous Rye House Plot, in which so many good men were involved.

At nineteen he joined the Militia and was apprenticed to a maltster, but, having knocked his master down in a free fight at Menheniot Fair in 1783, disappeared and enlisted as a private in the Coldstream Guards.

One of the aims of the maltster is, therefore, to break down the protein substances present in barley to such a degree that the wort has a maximum nutritive value for the yeast.

At the age of eighteen Thomas was apprenticed to a maltster at Liskeard, and about this time he joined the local Militia.

Tradition has it that his career as a maltster was cut short by his knocking his master down in a scrimmage.

Rumbald, who was a maltster, possessed a farm, called the Ryehouse, which lay on the road to Newmarket, whither the king commonly went once a year, for the diversion of the races.

His father was a miller or maltster, and there is a theory that Rembrandt acquired some of his effects of light and shade from the impressions made upon him during his life in the mill.

But it must be considered that all the good gained by this through the gradation of alehouse-keeper, brewer, maltster, and farmer, is overbalanced by the evil caused to the man and his family by his getting drunk.

The first Henry Adams and several of his descendants were maltsters, makers of malt from barley for use in baking or brewing beer, a trade carried over from England.

The maltsters would not pay as much for it as for spring barley, and as the midge troubles us less, our farmers are raising winter wheat again.