Offal

Quick meaning: Offal is a noun meaning The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

Meaning

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

More Meanings

1. A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
2. A dead body; carrion.
3. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.

Example Sentences

[…] the fragments are broken down and the finer particles are collected by sieving; finally, there is the bolting of the assembled fine fractions, with exclusion of the wheat offal which includes bran and a number of other commercial fractions like red dog and shorts.

Our standard wheat flour contains only the endosperm and represents practically a 75 per cent. extraction. The remaining 25 per cent. is known in the trade as grain offal or mill-feed, and is used largely as a concentrated food for live stock, being prized in the feeding of dairy cattle.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carrion, garbage, urinous, viscera, scrap, litter.

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