Meaning of hashmagandy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stew made from a variety of ingredients.
   Australia, uncountable
2. An insipid army dish.
   Australia, slang, uncountable
3. Residue remaining after organic material is processed, such as at an abattoir, used as fertiliser or by anglers as bait.
   uncountable

Examples

“These fishermen procure from a boiling-down establishment, where diseased sheep, oxen, and horses are reduced to glue and other useful articles, the residuum, an awfully stinking substance called Hashmagandy,[…].”

“[…]nitrogen is contained in the nitrate form⟳ in nitrate of soda and nitrate of potash, in the ammoniacal form⟳ in sulphate of ammonia, and in the organic form⟳ in dried blood, bonedust, bones, and digester refuse⟳ (hashmagandy), and manures of a similar class.”

“The raw offal is first steam-digested under pressure to remove⟳ the tallow, and the residue, termed “hashmagandy,” is then dried in steam-heated revolving cylinders, after which it is elevated or transferred to a disintegrator,[…]”

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