Tailings

"Tailings" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Tailings from the gold mine poisoned the land for kilometres around.

Meronym: culm

[…] 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[…]

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