Definition of "offal" in 英语

noun

1. The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

2. A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.

   • 1817, John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political in Sixty-One Numbers, Baltimore: John M. Carter, No. 32, Indian Corn, p. 96, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and will fatten on them as well.

3. A dead body; carrion.

4. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.