Bran, chaff, mill-dust. Obsolete.

A collective term for the husks of corn or other grain separated by threshing or winnowing.

Usually in plural. Husks of grain; chaff. Obsolete.

Chaff of corn.

The husks separated in the cleaning of any kind of small seed; the chaff of wheat or oats, the awns of barley, etc.; the refuse grain separated…

concrete. Cf. sheeling, n. 2. Husks or chaff.

The husk of oats after threshing. Usually in plural. Also †= shive, n.2

Probably: chopped straw, chaff.

(See quots.)

The bran or husk of wheat, barley, etc., separated from the flour after grinding. Also: any refuse material present in grain. Also in plural.

The husk of grain; the pod of beans or pease.

the husks of corn, esp. oats, also the grain that has been freed from the husk.