dousting

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A beating, a dusting. West-Country,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Bottrell, William (1880), Stories and Folklore of West Cornwall: “"For they'll get a mayn dousting when ever they coam."”
  2. A process for separating the dust from ore. Cornwall,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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.”
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of doust form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

doustings plural
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