Crossword clues for leavings
leavings
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leavings \Leav"ings\, n. pl.
Things left; remnants; relics.
Refuse; offal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood. 2 A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
Usage examples of "leavings".
I also saw the leavings from the battle, bones of horses and men picked clean, countless shards of arrows.
He rode through the army's discards and leavings, through the debris that marked its passing, and he pondered on the ugliness and futility of war.
When they had done, they set the campsite in order, buried their leavings, and set out.
Sometimes, if Bulkezu was in a magnanimous mood, Boso got to pick a fresh woman from among the newly-captured prisoners rather than accept the leavings after the Quman had done with them.
On the table around which they sat the leavings of their evening's feast congealed on platters of brass and pewter: chicken and goose bones.
Isn 't it a worse fate to live as a cripple, helpless except for what leavings others throw to you as to the dogs ?
Lord Arno's men would kill them like vermin, so they took what was offered by Willibrod since it was a feast compared to the leavings that had been cast in the dirt before them in their previous lives.
Here, by the wavering, stinking light of pitchblende torches, Sorrow and Rage snuffled all around the wheel and up a low tunnel to a cold, damp hollow worn into the stone where rags and leavings and waste had collected.
Within the close, airless confines of the homes huddled the leavings of despair and endless disappointment.
The feeders were like vultures, waiting to dispose of whatever leavings they could scavenge.
All about him, the feeders cluster, anticipating that they will soon dine upon the leavings that a battle between the Knight and the demon will create.
But the trail was trampled and strewn with the leavings of the Northland army, and no human life revealed itself anywhere.
Dark outlines shimmered in the haze, the burnt, scorched leavings of those dead who had come from the netherworld.
A half formed babe— not even as fully fleshed as a newborn—had been entombed in the blankets amid the leavings of birth: blood.
Its bed was slick and slimy, but Ivar dug in anyway, swallowing water that tasted of dirt and the foul leavings of night soil.