doust

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Dust. West-Country,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To extinguish, to destroy, to kill. West-Country,obsolete
    — [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever -- (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
  2. To dust. West-Country,obsolete
  3. To separate dust from ore. Cornwall,obsolete
    — 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.”

词形变化

dousts present,singular,third-person dousting participle,present dousted participle,past dousted past
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