tailings
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Is tailings a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.Examples: "Meronym: culm"Synonyms: mullock, culmpluralplural-only
2. (alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.Examples: "[…] 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[…]"Synonyms: tail, tailspluralplural-only
3. (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.pluralplural-only
Definition source: Wiktionary