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  • noun Material that has been separated by draining

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Examples

  • If he were anti-semitic, he would be blasting us with daily essays on the water pollution caushed by kosher blood drainings and the common linguistic ancestry of yiddish and satanic chants.

    Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan 2010

  • Trafigura said in a statement that the ship contained waste generated during cargo operations, which included tank drainings, cargo residues, tank washings and other oil mixtures.

    Trafigura Loses Appeal on Two Waste Charges Jenny Gross 2011

  • The water is a gumbo of storm surge mixed with the drainings of fractured sewage plants, split tanks from oil storage depots and broken refineries.

    A Ravaged Coast 2007

  • The water is a gumbo of storm surge mixed with the drainings of fractured sewage plants, split tanks from oil storage depots and broken refineries.

    A Ravaged Coast 2007

  • Any of these is preferable to shuffling around a drowsy cluster of third-hand camping supplies, wearing tattered fingerless gloves and pulling on a hip-flask of thermometer drainings.

    Ned Goldreyer: A Tale of Tent Cities 2009

  • The sober citizen who would never submit his watch or his motor to amateur tamperings freely submits his lakes to drainings, fillings, dredgings, pollutions, stabilizations, mosquito control, algae control, swimmer's itch control, and the planting of any fish able to swim.

    Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

  • He studied the subject until he found that the drainings really of those rich beds of coal furnished the coal-oil that was worth pumping, and then he found how it came up with the living springs.

    Acres of Diamonds 2008

  • “What if the nature of these energy drainings is hostile?”

    Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

  • “What if the nature of these energy drainings is hostile?”

    Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

  • “What if the nature of these energy drainings is hostile?”

    Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

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