vbl. sb. [f. VAT v.] The action or process of placing beer or other liquor in a vat or vats. Also attrib.
1843. Tizard, Brewing, 444. Vatting of Porter.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., s.v., Vatting charges at the docks.
1860. Bagehot, Biogr. Studies, Gladstone (1881), 93. Let a man question the fees on vatting, or the change in the game-certificate.
c. 1886. Kipling, Opium Factory, 93. After vatting,… the big vats … are probed with test rods.
