chott and bagasse

[Aussie Meyer]

Golly, y'know, I live right up the road apiece from Sugarland, Texas,
and I've worked on designing an inventory and production tracking system
for the big monster sugar refiner, heard the whole boring process from
the fields to the table, but damned if I know "bagasse".   Perhaps my
brain blocked out the word for being so unlikely. 

Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
> 
> Pierre writes:
> >Aussie's definition for chott turned out to be bagasse. As I
> >wasn't around yet, I didn't recognize it and voted for it. For
> >the benefit of those of us who weren't around back then
> >(I joined during murnival), could someone post the real
> >meanings of those words? Some I can find in the dictionary,
> >but some not.
> 
> Which words do you want definitions for?  Of the ones you mentioned, I
> can supply:
> 
> >bagasse - (n) the residue left after sugar has been extracted
> >from sugar cane
> 
> >murnival, n. In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value,
> >as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything.
> 
> Are you looking for other definitions?
> 
> Jean-Joseph