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tailings en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (form-of, plural) plural of tailing
   form of tailing
2. (plural, plural-only) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
   • Meronym: culm
3. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
   • […] 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[…] 1910, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 42:
4. (plural, plural-only) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.

Coordinates

overburden · goaf · gob · slime · gangue

Hypernyms

spoils

Synonyms

culm · mullock · tails · tail

Translations (9)

fi rikastusjäte (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · nl afval (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · nb slagg (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · id amang (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · eo gango (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · ja 尾鉱 (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · fr débris (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · cmn 尾礦 /尾矿 (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore) · es relave (waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore)