tailings
English
Noun
tailings pl (plural only)
- (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing.
- Synonym: mullock
- Coordinate terms: overburden, gangue, slimes
- (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.
- 1910, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 42:
- […] and it is made into a mash which is fermented and distilled in the same way that an ordinary grain mash is handled in a whisky distillery. The tailings from the still are first compressed to extract the water, and […]
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