Meanings
nounoffaling (uncountable)
- archaicuncountableoffal
Be careful that all slops or offaling from the kitchen or laundry work is soon conveyed away, or disinfected at once, […]
1880, Annual Report of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey, page 851 more example
[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.
1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32
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