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malt-dust
The refuse, consisting chiefly of the dried radicles or ‘comes’, which falls from the grain in the process of malting.
1512MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for malt dowst for to dobe wyth. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. xiv. 110 Some are perswaded that this come or malt dust, is a great breeder of the worme or weeuell. 1707Mortimer Husb. vi. 94 Mault-dust is an enricher of barren Land. 1849Cobden Speeches 20 One of the ablest farmers in the country..told me he bought great quantities of malt-dust, which he mixes..with the food he gives to his lambs. 1875Watts Dict. Chem. 2nd Suppl. 765 The malt is..screened to remove the radicle and plumule, which constitute malt-dust. |