draff

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/dɹæf/
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/dɹæf/ · /dɹɑːf/

Definition of draff

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, 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, […]”
    “A crowd immersed in ordure, that appear'd draff of the human body.”

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Etymology

From Middle English draf, likely from an unrecorded Old English *dræf, from Proto-Germanic *drabaz.

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