dousting

English

Verb

dousting

1. present participle and gerund of doust

Noun

dousting (countable and uncountable, plural doustings)

1. (obsolete, West Country) 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. (obsolete, mining, chiefly Cornwall) 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.”