different between dregs vs settlings

English

See dreg.

dregs pl (plural only)

(collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
the dregs of society
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 9
  Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.

The singular form dreg is far less common, but the phrase to the last dreg still has currency.

debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, loser, orts, outcast, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, trub

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