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
These three products of roller mills are practically identical in composition, but represent Semolina, middlings, dunst. different stages in the process of reducing the endosperm of the wheat to flour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
From the middlings obtained by this milling process about 10% of bran is separated, and the remainder of the middlings is treated by a peculiar process, akin to mashing, termed “lixiviation.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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