tailings
The English word “tailings” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
- Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
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