Hashmagandy

Quick meaning: Hashmagandy is a noun meaning (Australia) A stew made from a variety of ingredients.

Meaning

(Australia) A stew made from a variety of ingredients.

More Meanings

1. (Australia, military, slang) An insipid army dish.
2. Residue remaining after organic material is processed, such as at an abattoir, used as fertiliser or by anglers as bait.

Example Sentences

These fishermen procure from a boiling-down establishment, where diseased sheep, oxen, and horses are reduced to glue and other useful articles, the residuum, an awfully stinking substance called Hashmagandy,[…].

The raw offal is first steam-digested under pressure to remove the tallow, and the residue, termed “hashmagandy,” is then dried in steam-heated revolving cylinders, after which it is elevated or transferred to a disintegrator,[…]

[…]nitrogen is contained in the nitrate form in nitrate of soda and nitrate of potash, in the ammoniacal form in sulphate of ammonia, and in the organic form in dried blood, bonedust, bones, and digester refuse (hashmagandy), and manures of a similar class.

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