What are leavings?

What are leavings? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
  2. A worthless surfeit of material, such as leftovers from a meal, or scrap lumber.
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These leavings were conveyed to the market cellars and there sorted.
Do, do me a favor and let me send you up a can of the leavings every night.
From these slim leavings, we pieced together as much as we could about the events of their lives.
As for Spencer coming back to me, do you think I want her leavings?
I cannot get rid of the leavings of a cold I got a month ago, or else it is a new one.
However, there is some ruggedness north of Lynn Lake due to a multitude of eskers and other glacial leavings.

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