cocky chaff
noun [mass noun] Australian
Husks separated from wheat grain by threshing; wheat chaff: cocky chaff was used as a binder in walls of mud brick...
- He read a paper on the conservation of cocky chaff.
- He preferred to feed oats dry, mixed with cocky chaff, giving about 1½ gallons of oats per horse per day.
- Cover the oats with as much water as they will soak up, and allow them to swell before mixing them with a little bran and cocky chaff.
Origin
Late 19th century: from cocky3 + chaff1.
- non-crystalline
- non-crystallizable
- non-crystallized
- non-cumulative
- non-currency
- noncustodial
- noncy
- non-cyclic
- non-cyclical
- non-cyclically
- nonda
- non-dairy
- non-dangerous
- non-day
- non-dealer
- non-decision
- non-decreasing
- nondeductible
- non-defining
- nondegradable
- non-degree
- non-delivery
- non-denominational
- non-denumerable
- non-denumerably