Tailings
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tailings is a noun meaning plural of tailing.
Meaning
plural of tailing.
More Meanings
- (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
- (alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
Example Sentences
Meronym: culm
[…] 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[…]
Synonyms for tailings
Depending on context, synonyms include mullock, culm, tail, tails.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include following, shadowing, rock, trace, waste, residue.
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