1) Banter 2) Bran 3) Dross 4) Husk 5) Josh 6) Ridicule 7) Shuck 8) Stalk 9) Stubble 10) Tease
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1) Be silly or tease one another 2) British invention 3) Corn husks 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Exclusively Saxon word 6) Foil in thin strips 7) Grain debris 8) Grain husk 9) Grain husks 10) Grain husks or horse fodder 11) Grain-harvest debris 12) Harvest leavings 13) Husk 14) Husky humour 15) Jesting talk
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Chaff (f or f) is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw. Chaff is inedible for humans, but livestock can eat it and in agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a waste material ploughed into the soil or burnt. ==Ety...
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[countermeasure] Chaff, originally called Window by the British, and Düppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb where it was first developed), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appea...
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• (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. • (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. • (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. • (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle....
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Metallic foil ejected by a reentry module to enhance its radar image.
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(from the article `radar`) ...or repeater jamming, by which hostile jammers introduce additional signals into the radar receiver in an attempt to confuse the receiver into ... To defend against antiship missiles, navies employed towed or helicopter-borne decoys. Sometimes chaff (strips of foil or clusters of fine glass or ... [2 rela...
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thin scales or bracts subtending individual flowers in many species of the Asteraceae
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<plant biology> Thin, membranous scales or bracts, thin, dry unfertilized ovules among the fully developed seeds of a fruit. ... (21 Mar 1998) ...
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The glumes, lemmas, paleas and light plant-tissue fragments broken in threshing of grain.
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Chaff intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Chaffed ;
present participle & verbal noun Chaffing .] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
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Chaff noun [ AC.
ceaf ; akin to Dutch
kaf , German
kaff .]
1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. « So take the corn and leave the
chaff behind.
Dryden. » « Old birds are not ...
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Chaff transitive verb To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. « Morgan saw that his master was
chaffing him.
Thackeray. » « A dozen honest fellows . . .
chaffed each other about their sweethearts.
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Chaff is a passive form of electronic countermeasure used to deceive airborne or ground-based radar.
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A small thin dry and membranous scale or bract; in particular, the bracts in the flower-heads of composites.
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Small units intended to run general interference, usually considered expendable.
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Chaff is a device comprising strips of metal foil, used to confuse enemy radar systems including those in guided missiles.
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Chaff is British slang for banter, nonsense talk.
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[Animal farm] the husks of wheat or other grain separated in threshing or winnowing.
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noun foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
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Chaff refers to large quantities of passive reflecting material deployed in the atmosphere to counte
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Husks or other seed coverings and other plant parts separated from seed during harvest or processing.
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the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing. · straw cut up for fodder. · worthless matter; refuse. · the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants. · Also calledstrips of metal foil dropped by an aircraft to confuse enemy radar by creating false blips.
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material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem
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[Intelligent words] material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem
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