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Definition of Leavings
1. n. pl. Things left; remnants; relics.
Definition of Leavings
1. Noun. A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood. ¹
2. Noun. A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leavings
1. leaving [n] - See also: leaving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leavings
Literary usage of Leavings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Challenge: The Church and the New World Order by Frederick Henry Lynch (1916)
"The church in so many cases gets simply the leavings. If one should go through
some of the streets where our wealthiest people live he would find that in ..."
2. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining by William Pryce (1778)
"From that time all burnt leavings were taken much care of, provided they were
... caft away fome hundred tons of burnt leavings, to their great prejudice ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Orts. Crumbs; refuse. (Low German, art — ie «what is left after eating.) / »hall
not eat your oris-ie your leavings. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"... herb« ; the provender of cattle consisting of herbs. The term may have originally
denoted the provender itself.. [ORTS, ». pi. 1. leavings ..."
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