Meaning of Offal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
   countable, uncountable
2. A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
   countable, uncountable
3. A dead body; carrion.
   countable, uncountable
4. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
   countable, uncountable

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“1817, John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political in Sixty-One Numbers, Baltimore: John M. Carter, No. 32, Indian Corn, p. 96, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer⟳ them to hay, and will fatten on them as well.”

“Our standard wheat flour contains only the endosperm and represents practically a 75 per cent. extraction. The remaining 25 per cent. is known in the trade⟳ as grain offal or mill-feed, and is used largely as a concentrated food for live⟳ stock⟳, being prized in the feeding of dairy cattle.”

“[…] the fragments are broken down and the finer particles are collected by sieving; finally, there is the bolting of the assembled fine fractions, with exclusion of the wheat offal which includes bran and a number⟳ of other commercial fractions like⟳ red dog and shorts.”

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