Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dousting

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: doust-ing
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of doust

noun

A beating, a dusting.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

A process for separating the dust from ore.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

doustings (plural)

Questions

What does dousting mean?: present participle and gerund of doust

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