What is "skimmings"

Usage examples of "skimmings".

So once more I say I stick to Camacho, the bountiful skimmings of whose pots are geese and hens, hares and rabbits.

Sancho, who never found any pleasure or enjoyment in such doings, retreated to the wine-jars from which he had taken his delectable skimmings, considering that, as a holy place, that spot would be respected.

To give our skimmings a free hand, as we do, is an error of judgment for which we pay as dearly as the old seers paid for theirs.

When a bag man is used there are checkers watching him until he turns the skimmings over to the broker, then the broker is watched.