draff

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"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.

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  1. 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. Defyle not thy lips with eating much, as a Pigge eating draffe. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 77. I had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals, lately come from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. No, give them grains their fill, Husks, draff to drink and swill. B. Jonson, Ode to Himself. Nothing-worth, Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson, The Epic.

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  • "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. —  Fast Company
  • They had counted foot draff c and the numbers of people they caught and things like that. —  Latest Articles
  • Our news is draff, And void of spirit, since New England turns A fresh cheek to the slap of Britain's palm. —  Tecumseh : a Drama
  • The horse, with his wise snow-crusted eyes, took in all the winnowing of light among the draff, and saw no possibility of breaking through, but resolved to spend his life as he was ordered. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
  • He rade Birsie this mornin' too, after the kickin' randie had cuist me aff his back like a draff sack Then what's queer aboot him?" —  The Lilac Sunbonnet
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  1. Also formerly sometimes draugh, and by extension draft, draught; from Middle English draf, refuse, especially refuse of grain, chaff, husks (not in Anglo-Saxon), = Dutch draf, swill, hog's wash, cf. drab, drabbe, dregs, lees, grounds, = Old High German trebir, Middle High German treber, German treber, träber, plural, grains, husks, = Icelandic draf, draff, husks, = Swedish draf, grains, = Danish drav, dregs, lees. Perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. Irish drabh = Gaelic drabh, draff, refuse. Perhaps connected with drab, q. v.
 

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