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| mash | |
| 1. n. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. |  |
| 2. n. (brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. | |
| 3. n. Mashed potatoes. | |
| 4. n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A mess; trouble. | |
| 6. v. To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | |
| We had fun mashing apples in a mill. | |
| The potatoes need to be mashed. | |
| 7. v. In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | |
| 8. v. To press down hard (on). | |
| to mash on a bicycle pedal | |
| 9. v. (transitive, UK, mostly, Northern England) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea). | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, archaic) To act violently. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A mesh. | |
| 12. v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex) | |
