boasts

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There were the farmhouses, the square-towered churches, the red-pointed hop oasts, and the village children.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

There were no hop-gardens, as on the farms inland, no white-cowled oasts, and scarcely more than twelve acres under the plough.

From Joanna Godden by Kaye-Smith, Sheila

The oasts are circular or square kilns, or groups of kilns, wherein the green hops are laid upon floors covered with horsehair, under which are enclosed or open stoves or furnaces.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald; Squat orchard trees and oasts with painted cowls; A homely, tangled hedge, a corn-stooked field, With sound of barking dogs and farmyard fowls.

From The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Sassoon, Siegfried

Drying.—After being picked, the hops are taken in pokes—long sacks holding ten bushels—to the oasts to be dried.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various