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draff [dræf]

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) the residue of husks after fermentation of the grain used in brewing, used as a food for cattle

[from Old Norse draf; related to Old High German trebir, Russian drob fragment; see drivel]

draffy adj

Draff anything thrown away—Johnson, 1755; sweepings; refuse; lees; dregs, 1205.

Examples: draff of filthy errors, 1555; of stories, 1385.

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