tailings
noun1
Business, Mining The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- Meronym: culm
2
The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
Alcohol production
- […] 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:
3
Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.