mash

(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. In 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. Mashed potatoes. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. (obsolete): A mess; trouble â€” Beaumont & Fletcher

[edit] Derived terms

mash tun mash vat

[edit] Translations

a mass of mixed ingredients

Danish: grÃ¸d

Finnish: muusi, sose

in brewing

mashed potatoes

See mashed potatoes

a mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals

obsolete: a mess; trouble

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German: Maische f. (1, brewing), Brei m. (1), Mus n. (1), Futterbrei m. (2)

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to mash

Third person singular
mashes

Simple past
mashed

Past participle
mashed

Present participle
mashing

to mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. (transitive) To press down hard (on).

to mash on a bicycle pedal

(transitive, southern US, informal) to press.