bagassen.
/bəˈɡas/, /baˈɡas/, /bəˈɡɑːs/, /baˈɡɑːs/, U.S. /bəˈɡæs/ a. The refuse products in sugar-making, whether from the cane or from beet. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > juice of sugar cane > dregs or refuse of
trash1707
dunder1774
cane trash1790
sugar-wash1812
bagasse1833
megass1833
dabs1858
pummy1877
1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 15 Two boys at bagasse (ground cane) carts.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xxii. 239 The baggasse or cane-trash, (called in the West Indies migass,) is..conveyed to a distance..to be burnt.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1195 Liquor which is speedily absorbed by the spongy begass.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1197 The begass..is tied up in bundles, and..is finally stored in the begass-house.
1854 in A. Ure Dict. Arts
1867 F. Stewart Sorghum 54 This property of the dried begasse suggests the propriety of using it for thatching.
1881 Hedges Sug. Canes 23 On the opposite side of the mill is another apron, for conveying the Bagasse.
1882 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 360.
1887 Harper's Mag. Feb. 336 An old begass chimney against the sky.
1960 Times 8 Jan. 7 Mauritius..solved the problems of a one-crop economy by burning ‘bagasse’, the fibre that remains after sugar cane is crushed.
1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xvi. 246 The fibres of straws, bamboos, sugar cane waste (bagasse) and palms can be used for paper-making.
b. = bagassosis n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre
stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540
phthisis1821
black lung1837
anthracosis1838
shoddy fever1851
potter's consumption1863
siderosis1869
collier's phthisis1871
iron lung1872
chalicosis1878
pneumonoconiosis1878
tabacosis1879
byssinosis1881
pneumoconiosis1881
silicosis1881
potter's rot1895
fur-fever1905
stonemason's lung1905
asbestosis1927
anthracosilicosis1929
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935
bagassosis1941
bagasse1943
berylliosis1943
thesaurosis1958
1943 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 95 558 (title) Bagasse disease of the lung.
1944 Newsweek 26 June 80 A new industrial disease called bagasse was reported..among sugarcane workers who handled..the fibrous material.
Derivatives
baˈgasse-ˌburner n. a furnace for consuming bagasse.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for destroying refuse or contraband
King's (Queen's) tobacco-pipe1596
the Queen's Pipe1843
cremator1881
destructor1881
bagasse-burner1883
1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 391 The huge, square, red brick bagasse-burner, into which the residuum of crushed sugar~cane passes.
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