Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The debris of the husks of rice. See
rice-milling .
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Examples
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On the top, lying in a groove, is a tiny rounded bag of calico filled with rice-chaff, about the size of a sausage.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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The same sampan is re-engaged to convey us farther down stream; beneath the housing of bamboo-mats, the rice-chaff leaves barely room for us to crowd in and huddle together from the rain and cold prevailing outside.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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