Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash or swill given to swine; specifically, the refuse of malt which has been used in brewing or distilling, given to swine and cows. Also called brewers' grains.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
Examples
“They combined pot ale - the liquid from copper stills distillery equipment - and the spent grains used to make whisky, also known as draff, to produce butanol.”
“GreenSwitch" technology to combine a liquid whisky by-product called "pot ale," solid waste from the original whisky grain -- "draff" -- and woodchip into fuel for the powerstation.”
“Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University produced a type of fuel called butanol using "pot ale" - the liquid residue from copper stills - and "draff," or leftover grain.”
The Huffington Post: Whiskey Biofuel Created By Scottish Scientists Can Be Used In Conventional Cars
“The biofuel uses the two main by-products from the whisky production process - '' pot ale '', the liquid from the copper stills, and '' draff '', the spent grains, as the basis to produce the butanol that can then be used as fuel.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“The biofuel uses the two main by-products from the whisky production process - "pot ale", the liquid from the copper stills, and "draff", the spent grains, as the basis to produce the butanol that can then be used as fuel.”
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
“University produced a type of fuel called butanol using "pot ale" - the liquid residue from copper stills - and "draff," or leftover grain.”
“These are "pot ale", the liquid from the copper stills, and the spent grains called "draff", as the base to produce butanol which can then be used as fuel.”
“Edinburgh Napier University have developed a method of producing biofuel from two main by-products of the whisky distilling process - "pot ale", the liquid from the copper stills, and "draff", the spent grains.”
“Using samples from the Glenkinchie Distillery in East Lothian, researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have developed a method of producing biofuel from two main by-products of the whisky distilling process - "pot ale", the liquid from the copper stills, and "draff", the spent grains. waste products are produced by the £4bn whisky industry each year, and the scientists say there is real potential for the biofuel, to be available at local garage forecourts alongside traditional fuels.”
“draff", as the base to produce butanol which can then be used as fuel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘draff’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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Unwanted matter
gangue, dross, slag, scoria, refuse, trash, cinder, ashes, leavings, recrement, debris, waste and 37 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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Libatious Lexemes
A list devoted to terms related to drinking; particularly alcohol.
reposado, armagnac, rhum agricole, tumbler, claret, medoc, muddler, tun, amontillado, amaro, chartreuse, calvados and 67 more...
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'Wasted' Words
Alcohol-related words that tickle the ear & the fancy
absinthe, ambrosial, Bordeaux, burgundy, bibulous, wineskin, champagne, claret, corkscrew, drip dickey, frizzante, flagon and 74 more...
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the rain of grain
stays mainly in ..........
rye, millet, wheat, quinoa, amaranth, caryopsis, barley, rice, brinjarry, sorghum, kaoliang, acrospire and 36 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "Worked to the bone, clad in rags, fed on husks and draff, infected by tropical fever, he sank into dumb beastliness. For two years his only consolation was a book, a tattered Geometry, and — picture this — when night fell he would repair to the beach and trace out on the sand Euclid's ideal forms by the pure light of the African moon."
--The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch, p 99 Jul 12, 2009