dousts

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
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...

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