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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Greasy dish-water, or the skimmings of a pot where fat meat has been boiled.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
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 Kellogg, John Harvey
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
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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Beneath the top skimmings of these years he afterward conceived seething depths working beneath the froth, but could give hardly any account of it.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
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