tailings

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural 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)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[…]”

4. (plural, plural-only)Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.