What is "oast"

Usage examples of "oast".

The palace dominated the town, its great arches and steps leading from the square, its quaint chimneys, like Kentish oast houses bulging along its face.

Tropical way, pure Air, Coffee beyond compare, from Bush to Oast unmediated!

I will therefore bestow you my large and weighty oast in return for this creature with its accoutrements.

Then, although no-one seemed to be paying the Oast attention to her, she moved a little further off.

As the dragons went by, Bazil and the Purple Green sauntered into the column behind their friends Oast and Ksodan, who were bringing up the rear.

In the 66th Dragons, the nimble leatherback Oast had been slain by troll ax.

Rusp and Oast, and the remaining dragons stood in a loose circle about the blazing fires.

He went ahead and sold Monkenhurst and moved temporarily into an oast house in Ticehurst, Kent in July 1987.

Norfolk has its windmills, Kent has its oast houses, and we have rhubarb sheds.

He spoke to Gabrielle about it as they rode between the aromatic vines, watching the men carrying baskets of hops to the oast houses to be dried.

I looked out at green meadows, oast houses, the ripening hops and the fruit-laden trees of the orchards which were a feature of this part of the country.

Four oasts, carrying men on their shoulders, came trotting from the forest.

If the oasts were unable to sniff out a trail, they might now be eluded.

Presently the four men on their hulking oasts passed in the afterglow above him, black double-shapes in attitudes suggestive of ill-temper and disappointment.

Why, no, Maskelyne, after the Cape I find it quite calming here, in a Tropical way, pure Air, Coffee beyond compare, from Bush to Oast unmediated!