name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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doust
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noun
Meaning 2
Dust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: West-Country, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 3
To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: West-Country, obsolete
Examples
- Fussel, E.F. (1867), Medical Times and Gazette, page 420: “"[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- "I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon dousted it."”
- Havergal, Francis Tebbs (1887), Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county: “"Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him."”
- Clynton, Richard (1889), The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer: “Look at me, mates! The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.”
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verb
Meaning 4
To dust.
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Usage: West-Country, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 5
To separate dust from ore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cornwall, obsolete
Topics: business, mining
Examples
- Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895), Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “The ore is first cobbed and classed into (a) prile, (b) best dredge, and (c) crusher dredge; a is finished product; c is crushed, jigged, and huddled; b is dousted, or, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.”
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