draff
noun/dɹæf/ · /dɹɑːf/
Etymology From Middle English draf, likely from an unrecorded Old English *dræf, from Proto-Germanic *drabaz.
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Usually 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
- […] 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, […]1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 8–9:
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- A crowd immersed in ordure, that appear'd draff of the human body.c. 1805-1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy Canto 18