How to pronounce“chaff”in English
Anyway a hard surface and then you beat it all right with a flail and then you would winnow it, all right, throw it up and the breeze would blow through it and drive the
chaff and husks away and then you'd get some barley.
Now carefully sweep that up and put it now in a -- in something that you could store it away from rats and mice in a day before sheet metal, before mesh metal, in a clay
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Definitions of “chaff”
The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
“To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.”
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 useful, especially after long fasts.”
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language.
“We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter.”
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