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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 800 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHAFF (from the A.S. ceaf, allied to the O. High Ger. cheva, a husk or pod)

CHAFF (from the A.S. ceaf, allied to the O. High Ger. cheva, a husk or pod) , the husks

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LEFT

left after threshing

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GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, and also

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hay and

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STRAW

straw chopped

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FINE

fine as

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food for

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle; hence, figuratively, the refuse or worthless

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PART

part of anything . The colloquial use of the word, to

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CHAFF (from the A.S. ceaf, allied to the O. High Ger. cheva, a husk or pod)

chaff, in the sense of to banter or to make fun of a

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PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, may be derived from this figurative sense, or from " to chafe," meaning to vex or irritate .

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