middlings
Britishplural noun
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the poorer or coarser part of flour or other products
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commodities of intermediate grade, quality, size, or price
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the part of a pig between the ham and shoulder
Example Sentences
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The elite -- those who've won awards, broken box office records, sold successful franchises--are often welcomed back even as newbies like Nate Parker or middlings like Lindsay Lohan are cut loose.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2016
The smell was delicious—warm milk, potato skins, wheat middlings, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and a popover left from the Zuckermans’ breakfast.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
Skim milk, crusts, middlings, bits of doughnuts, wheat cakes with drops of maple syrup sticking to them, potato skins, leftover custard pudding with raisins, and bits of Shredded Wheat.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
This pressure, however, must be applied with great discrimination, large semolina with impurities attached requiring quite different treatment from that called for by small pure middlings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Before it is hung up the entire flesh surface of the hams and shoulders, and sometimes the middlings also, is sprinkled thickly with fine black pepper, using a large tin pepper box to apply it.
From Home Pork Making by Fulton, A. W.
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