flour vs smeddum

flour

noun
  • Powder of other material. 

  • Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. 

  • The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents. 

  • Coordinate term: meal 

verb
  • To reduce to flour. 

  • To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. 

  • To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. 

smeddum

noun
  • Fine powder; flour. 

  • A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal. 

  • Smitham. 

  • Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle. 

  • The powder or finest part of ground malt. 

  • Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve. 

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