mash
verb
[ maʃ ]
• reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it.
• "mash the beans to a paste"
• (in brewing) mix (powdered malt) with hot water to form wort.
• "the barley is dried out over peat fires and mashed with water which flows through peat ground"
• (with reference to tea) brew or infuse.
• "I've just mashed a pot of tea"
mash
noun
• a soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid.
• "pound the garlic to a mash"
Origin:
Old English māsc (as a brewing term), of West Germanic origin; perhaps ultimately related to mix.
