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chaff

the dry membranous bracts enclosing the flowers of certain composite plants

chaff [chaf]

(agriculture)

Seed coverings and small stem pieces which are separated from grass and grain seeds in threshing or processing.

(ordnance)

Thin, flat pieces of metal foil, plain or backed, designed to act as a countermeasure against enemy radar when released into the atmosphere.

Chaff

the resulting waste products from threshing and cleaning the grains of cereal and leguminous plants. It consists of hulls, bits of spikelets, ground leaves, underweight grains, and the seeds of weeds. The nutritional value of chaff is higher than that of straw. One kg of wheat chaff contains 0.43 feed units and 26 g of digestible protein; 1 kg of rye chaff contains 0.40 feed units and 21 g of digestible protein; and 1 kg of oat chaff contains 0.44 feed units and 23 g of digestible protein.

Chaff may be used in mixtures with succulent feeds, wet mash, molasses, and other slops for fattening cattle, horses, and swine. When grain is harvested by combine, the chaff is mixed with straw and is thus used as feed for animals.

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Their psychology is bovine, their outlook crude and rare; They abandon vital matters to be tickled with a straw; But the straw that they were tickled with--the chaff that they were fed with-- They convert into a weaver's beam to break their foeman's head with.

Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.

Fables by Aesop View in context

But chaff or no chaff they would have been surprised to see me leave them for the burly and sympathetic Mills.

The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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