Meanings (ES + gloss)
bagazo • barcia • paja • tamo
The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
pienso
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it, and time is given for the commencement of digestion, before fermentation can occur. In this way chaff is very…
paja
Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
Who that has prided himself on his spiritual strength has not seen it humbled to the dust? A knowledge of religion, as distinguished from experience, seems but chaff in such moment…
the chaff and ruin of the times
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