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Meaning of tailings

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

tailings

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of following someone.

  2. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

  3. Sexual intercourse

  4. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.

noun

Definitions

  1. The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; gangue, slimes

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tailinghttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tailings

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