plural noun
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the residue left after cleaning grain
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residue that remains after scouring
Etymology
Origin of scourings
Example Sentences
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But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.
From Literature
They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory.
From Project Gutenberg
The re-appearance of Greene and his army in North Carolina, heralded by the scourings of Lee and Pickens, disconcerted the schemes of Lord Cornwallis.
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The three were manifestly no soldiers—that I could see at once—but just the scourings of the Dumfries stables, that had taken to the informer's trade.
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They were washed-down, melted, stripped of earth and vegetation; and down from their flanks in a steep, even slope, lay the d�bris and scourings of centuries.
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