1. a large container used for holding liquids, especially in industrial processes

1. to put or treat in a vat
Usage: technical

Examples

• The brewery uses large vats to ferment the beer.
• Wine grapes are crushed and placed in fermentation vats.
• The chemical plant has several steel vats for mixing solutions.
• Workers carefully monitored the temperature in each vat.
• The dye vat contained bright blue liquid.
• They vatted the grapes before beginning the fermentation process.