draff
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English
Etymology
From Middle English draf, likely from an unrecorded Old English *dræf, from Proto-Germanic *drabaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
draff (usually uncountable, plural draffs)
- A byproduct from a grain distillery, often fed to pigs or cattle as part of their ration; often synonymous with brewer's spent grain, sometimes differentiated from it; usually differentiated from potale, at least in technical use, although broad, nontechnical use has often lumped all such byproducts together, especially in the past.
- 1599, Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N L and C B , →OCLC, pages 8–9:
- […] 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, […]
- c. 1805-1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy Canto 18
- A crowd immersed in ordure, that appear'd draff of the human body.
Derived terms
Translations
dregs; the wash given to swine or cows
References
- Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition