An inferior kind of flour.

(a) inferior wheat flour; (b) material for the woodwork of a ship.

General attributive, as in batch-bread, batch-flour. Also in various combinations denoting a machine or process that treats a batch of material…

(a) a partridge at a certain stage of growth; (b) see quot. 1867; also used of maize; (c) a short and thick or broad tail; also figurative.

U.S. The lowest grade of flour produced by milling, used chiefly for animal feed.