Now dial. Also 7 tap-waze, 8 -owze, 9 -ooze, -wees. [f. TAP sb.1
The precise sense in which hose is used in the second element is not clear; in later use it has been associated with other words, esp. OOZE, WASE, bundle of straw.]
A strainer placed over the tap-hole in a mash-tub or the like, to prevent any solid matter from passing into or through the tap.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 606/28. Quaxillum, a tappehose.
1480. Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls (Bundle 51, No. 3 b). i vatte, 1 taphose, 1 rother.
1609. C. Butler, Fem. Mon. (1634), 157. But first provide … a Tub or Kive, with a Tap, and Tap-waze.
1707. Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 322. Till it [wort] runs clear, which it will not do at first tho’ your Tap-hose be never so well adjusted.
1736. Bailey, Househ. Dict., 232. Having an open headed cask with a tap. and tap-owze.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Tap-ooze, Tap-whisk, the wicker strainer placed over the mouth of the tap in a mash-vat when brewing, to allow the wort to ooze through, and to prevent the grains passing. [See also TAP sb. 6.)
