dousting

noun — 2 senses

dousting

noun

1

West Country, Obsolete A beating, a dusting.

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

2

Business, Mining Cornwall, Obsolete A process for separating the dust from ore.

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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