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Noun: malt  molt
  1. A milkshake made with malt powder
    - malted, malted milk
     
  2. A lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
    - malt liquor
     
  3. A cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
     
  4. Whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still
    - Scotch, Scotch whiskey, Scotch whisky, malt whiskey, malt whisky, Scotch malt whiskey, Scotch malt whisky
Verb: malt  molt
  1. Treat with malt or malt extract
    "malt beer"
     
  2. Turn into malt, become malt
     
  3. Convert grain into malt
     
  4. Convert into malt

Sounds like: moult, molt

Derived forms: malted, malts, malting

See also: malted, maltster, unmalted

Type of: cereal, convert, food grain, grain, lager, lager beer, milk shake, milkshake, process, shake, treat, whiskey [N. Amer, Ireland], whisky

Part of: Rob Roy

Encyclopedia: Malt