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Tailings

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  1. 1
    plural of tailing form-of, plural
  2. 2
    The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining. plural, plural-only

    "Meronym: culm"

  3. 3
    The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils. plural, plural-only

    "[…] and it is made into a mash which is fermented and distilled in the same way that an ordinary grain mash is handled in a whisky distillery. The tailings from the still are first compressed to extract the water, and[…]"

  4. 4
    Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing. plural, plural-only

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