kitchen refuse
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They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Decaying vegetables or fruit, fermenting kitchen refuse and other materials sometimes also serve as breeding-places.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur
The estimates of the quantities of nutrients were based upon the quantities of food materials for a term of three months and upon the table and kitchen refuse for a week.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
They originated with pile dwellings in shallow water, where the kitchen refuse, chiefly shells, accumulates and rises above the surface, when the building appears to stand on posts in a low mound.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Sinks must be set level, and provided with a strainer at the outlet to prevent large particles of kitchen refuse from being swept into the pipe and obstructing it.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
