fust

Meanings

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
2. The shaft (main body) of a column.

1. To turn mouldy, to decay.
2. Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

1. A type of small galley.

1. Nonstandard form of first.

1. Nonstandard form of first.

Etymology

From Middle English fust, from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”) or *gʷʰen- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).