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発音

• IPA: /dɹæf/, /dɹɑːf/
• 韻: -æf, -ɑːf

名詞

draff (usually uncountable, plural draffs)

1. 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.

   Synonyms: dregs, hogwash

   Coordinate term: potale

   Near-synonyms: brewers' spent grains, BSG, distillers' grains

   • 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:

     […] 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.

派生語

参照

• Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition