Chaff
Chaff — the husk left when the grain is taken — marks in a dream an empty and fruitless undertaking, ill health causing anxiety. The dream tends to touch what is winnowed away as worthless, the dry remainder after the good is gone, and to ask where our effort is yielding only husk, and what substance has been lost from it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for chaff, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety.
Women dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent in useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety and causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained them without work on their part.