fine floury dust thrown out during the process of grinding corn.

Contrasted with smooth. The rougher, harder, or more disagreeable part, side, or aspect of something, esp. life. Also in plural. Now chiefly in to…

The chaff or ears separated from threshed crops; = cavings at cave, v.4 derivatives.

The inner husks of oat and other grain, separated in grinding. Cf. seed, n. 1e.

(a) mixed meal and dust from the floor of a mill (now historical and rare); †(b) barley meal (obsolete).

dialect. The refuse of barley, corn, oats, etc. Cf. shack, n.1 2.

In technical use: (see quots.).

(See quot. 1843 and cf. slutch, n. 2.)

Water containing waste material produced by grinding; = slush, n.1 3a. Obsolete.