tailings

English

Noun

tailings

1. plural of tailing

Noun

tailings pl (plural only)

1. (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing.

   Synonym: mullock

   Hypernym: spoils

   Coordinate terms: overburden, gangue, gob, goaf; slimes

2. (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.
   • 1910, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 42:

     […] 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 […]

3. (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.

Translations

waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尾礦／尾矿 (zh) (wěikuàng)

• Dutch: afval (nl)
• Esperanto: gango
• Finnish: rikastusjäte
• French: débris (fr)
• Japanese: 尾鉱 (ja) (びこう, bikō)
• Spanish: relave (es) m