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dousting

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A beating, a dusting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: West-Country, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

  • Bottrell, William (1880), Stories and Folklore of West Cornwall: “"For they'll get a mayn dousting when ever they coam."”

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noun

Meaning 2

A process for separating the dust from ore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Cornwall, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Topics: business, mining

Examples

  • Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895), Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “Dry winnowing or "dousting" is useful where the ore is more friable than the ganguo, eg the chalcopyrite and erubescite at the Capo copper-mines, Namaqualand.”

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3

verb

Meaning 3

present participle and gerund of doust

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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