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/dɹæf/ · noun
A byproduct from a brewery, a distillery, or both, often fed to pigs or cattle as part of their ration; often synonymous with distillers' grains, brewers' spent grains, or both (when not differentiated); usually differentiated from potale, at least in technical use, although broad, nontechnical use has often lumped all such byproducts together, especially in the past..
Near-synonyms: brewers' spent grains, BSG, distillers' grains
A crowd immersed in ordure, that appear'd draff of the human body.
[…] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
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Draff means A byproduct from a brewery, a distillery, or both, often fed to pigs or cattle as part of their ration; often synonymous with distillers' grains, brewers' spent grains, or both (when not differentiated); usually differentiated from potale, at least in technical use, although broad, nontechnical use has often lumped all such byproducts together, especially in the past..
Common synonyms include dregs, hogwash, brewers' spent grains, BSG.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonyms: brewers' spent grains, BSG, distillers' grains
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