Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simplified spelling of
chaff .
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Examples
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Children especially have been very ill from the lead, which sits in chaf mountains a couple hundred feet high you can see for miles around.
Think Progress » Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ 2006
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Morris, painstakingly researched the book, sorting through thousands upon thousands of founders' statements, winnowing the wheat from the chaf, plucking only the most desirable cherry from each tree, to find the quotes needed to support his arguments.
Archive 2009-03-22 SeattleDan 2009
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Bloody hell, I love this guy, how else is a lady/woman/person oh enough of this PC crap going to cut the wheat from the chaf!
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We had inverted a parachute in the Snack Bar by hanging it from the ceiling and draping the shroud lines with chaf.
THE WAY IT WAS 1990
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But remember that no injector can work coal cinders or chaf and that all joints must be air tight.
Rough and Tumble Engineering James H. Maggard
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A useless strip of white chaf -- oh, no, he was guiding the auto car -- of white chiffon -- or perhaps it was grenadine or tulle -- was tied beneath her chin, pretending to hold her bonnet in place.
The Four Million O. Henry 1886
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GEORGE MA.DONA.D M.A. Me list not of the chaf ne of the stre
Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864
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I thought you drop the At .... just "chaf a (uh) laya"
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I thought you drop the At .... just "chaf a (uh) laya"
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I thought you drop the At .... just "chaf a (uh) laya"
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