Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Scraps or remains; residue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Things left; remnants; relics.
- noun plural Refuse; offal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A worthless and incidental
residuum , asscraps from a meal orshavings orsawdust from wood. - noun A worthless surfeit of material, as
leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
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Examples
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The farmers would share their wells, and the herders would feed their stock on the leavings from the harvest.
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The farmers would share their wells, and the herders would feed their stock on the leavings from the harvest.
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The farmers would share their wells, and the herders would feed their stock on the leavings from the harvest.
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There is an unawareness of the daily blood letting and skin leavings we sacrifice in our work.
A PRIMER ON UNLEARNING CLASSISM Maggie Jochild 2007
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He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto.
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He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto.
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He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto.
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All of a sudden he catches sight of some leavings from the boys 'supper, and begins immediately to grumble because they have had chicken.
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There would be a dray drawn by three or four pair of bullocks; London streets never saw that turn-out; and then Eleanor would start at seeing a little group of the natives of the country, dressed in English leavings of costume.
The Old Helmet, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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And she noticed that some of the "leavings" of urine were tiny.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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