tailings

Etymology

noun

1. plural of tailing

noun

1. (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing.
2. (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.
   […] and it is made into a mash which is fermented and distilled in the same way that an ordinary grain mash is handled in a whisky distillery. The tailings from the still are first compressed to extract the water, and[…] 1910, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, page 42