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A bucket with delusions of grandeur, where liquid waits to become wine, cheese, or money.
means A large container or tank used for holding, mixing, or storing liquids, especially in brewing, fermenting, dyeing, or industrial processes.
from From Old English 'fæt,' meaning a vessel or cask — a cousin of Dutch 'vat' and German 'Fass,' all from a Germanic root for 'container.' The older English form was 'fat' (still seen in 'wine-fat'), but the southern English habit of voicing initial F to V — the same quirk that gives us dialect 'vox' for 'fox' — won out, leaving us with 'vat' for the big tub and 'fat' for the round belly that, fittingly, also holds things.
- tax twin
- VAT also means value-added tax in 170+ countries
- big gulp
- Brewing vats can hold over 100,000 liters
- old word
- Comes from the same root as fat (the vessel)
- dye history
- Vat dyeing gave us durable indigo for blue jeans