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doust

doust noun: dust.

Noun

doust (uncountable)

  1. (West-Country, obsolete) Dust.

Verb

doust (third-person singular simple present dousts, present participle dousting, simple past and past participle dousted)

  1. (West-Country, obsolete) To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
    • [...] 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...anonymous author (1831), The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
    • 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...
  2. (West-Country, obsolete) To dust.
  3. (Cornwall, obsolete) To separate dust from ore.
    • 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...

Proper noun capitalized: Doust

Doust

  1. A surname.

Examples of doust in a sentence

  • 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.”

Forms of doust

third-person singular presentdousts
present participledousting
past participledousted
pastdousted

Questions about doust

What does doust mean?
Doust means dust.
How do you use doust in a sentence?
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."”
What part of speech is doust?
Doust can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.

Words near doust in the dictionary

  1. dousing
  2. dousing-chock
  3. dousing-chocks
  4. dousings
  5. Dousland
  6. doust
  7. dousted
  8. dousting
  9. doustings
  10. Doustioni
  11. dousts

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