Meanings
- AustraliauncountableA stew made from a variety of ingredients.
- AustraliaslanguncountablegovernmentAn insipid army dish.
- uncountableResidue remaining after organic material is processed, such as at an abattoir, used as fertiliser or by anglers as bait.
These fishermen procure from a boiling-down establishment, where diseased sheep, oxen, and horses are reduced to glue and other useful articles, the residuum, an awfully stinking substance called Hashmagandy,[…].
1905, Arthur Henry Beavan, Fishes I Have Known, page 1272 more examples
[…]nitrogen is contained in the nitrate form in nitrate of soda and nitrate of potash, in the ammoniacal form in sulphate of ammonia, and in the organic form in dried blood, bonedust, bones, and digester refuse (hashmagandy), and manures of a similar class.
1905, Victorian Department of Agriculture, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria, volume 3, page 714The raw offal is first steam-digested under pressure to remove the tallow, and the residue, termed “hashmagandy,” is then dried in steam-heated revolving cylinders, after which it is elevated or transferred to a disintegrator,[…]
1937, Victorian Department of Agriculture, The journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, volume 34, page 49
Origin
Corruption of salmagundi.
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