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tailings

noun C2
  1. The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining. · Meronym: culm
  2. The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
  3. Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
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