skimmings
Britishplural noun
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material that is skimmed off a liquid
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the froth containing concentrated ore removed during a flotation process
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slag, scum, or impurities removed from molten metals
Example Sentences
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A vast number of her Majesty's subjects dart over the debater and the discussor of the newspaper, like storm petrels, and thrive upon what skimmings they retain.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
In the West Indies, on the great sugar plantations, large quantities of liquor are made from the skimmings and cleanings of the vessels in which the sweet juice of the sugar-cane is boiled down.
From First Book in Physiology and Hygiene by John Harvey Kellogg
However, possibly the sulphur and copper could be largely abstracted in the skimmings from the cupellation furnace, these being subsequently liquated in the "third" furnace.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Her husband is dead, and I guess he led her a life of it when he was alive, and she's as poor as second skimmings.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
The molasses and skimmings were sent for, sale to Batavia, where one distillery might buy the produce of a hundred estates.
From Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. by Thomas Clarkson
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