Definition of chaff

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Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc..

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Sheldaple :: Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
Twink :: Twink (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaff :: Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..
Ventilation :: Ventilation (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain..
Chafewax :: Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwa.
Pettychaps :: Pettychaps (n.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis)..
Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.
Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel..
Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..
Shilfa :: Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words..
Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
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