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tailings🔊

(tailing)

(mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.

(alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.

📑 Synonyms: tail tails

(agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.

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