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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. But chaff or no chaff they would have been surprised to see me leave them for the burly and sympathetic Mills. |
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