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tailings

  1. plural of tailing

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tailings pl (plural only)

  1. (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing.
    Synonym: mullock
    Hypernym: spoils
    Coordinate terms: overburden, gangue, gob, goaf; slimes
  2. (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.
    • 1910, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 42:
      [] 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 []
  3. (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.

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