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doustings

doustings is the plural of dousting.

Meaning of dousting

Noun

dousting (countable and uncountable, plural doustings)

  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. (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.”

Questions about doustings

What is doustings the plural of?
Doustings is the plural of dousting.

Words near doustings in the dictionary

  1. dousings
  2. Dousland
  3. doust
  4. dousted
  5. dousting
  6. doustings
  7. Doustioni
  8. dousts
  9. dout
  10. doutar
  11. doutars

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