scourings

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Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Thus gallantly attended, the queen entered the vanquished frontier of Granada, journeying securely along the pleasant banks of the Xenil, so lately subject to the scourings of the Moors.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington

Nevertheless I had heard many tales of his sayings and his humours, for our curate was not as most others—dull and truculent knaves many of them, according to my thinking—the scourings of the North.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made.

From Scientific Essays and Lectures by Kingsley, Charles