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‖ bagasse|bəˈgæs|
[a. F. bagasse, ad. Sp. bagazo, husks of olives, grapes, etc., after pressing; perh. a variant of bagage ‘lumber, trash’ (Minsheu), with augmentative suffix -azo: cf. baggage 4.]
a. The refuse products in sugar-making, whether from the cane or from beet. Also attrib. Cf. begasse.
1833B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 15 Two boys at bagasse (ground cane) carts. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West I. 239 The bagasse or cane-trash (called in the West Indies migass) is..conveyed to a distance..to be burnt. 1854in Ure Dict. Arts. 1881Hedges Sug. Canes 23 On the opposite side of the mill is another apron, for conveying the Bagasse. 1882Contemp. Rev. Sept. 360. 1960 Times 8 Jan. 7 Mauritius..solved the problems of a one-crop economy by burning ‘bagasse’, the fibre that remains after sugar cane is crushed. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xvi. 246 The fibres of straws, bamboos, sugar cane waste (bagasse) and palms can be used for paper-making.
b. = bagassosis.
1943New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. XCV. 558 (title) Bagasse disease of the lung. 1944Newsweek 26 June 80 A new industrial disease called bagasse was reported..among sugarcane workers who handled..the fibrous material.
baˈgasse-ˌburner, a furnace for consuming bagasse.
1883Century Mag. Jan. 391 The huge, square, red brick bagasse-burner, into which the residuum of crushed sugar⁓cane passes. |