dousting

== English == === Verb === dousting present participle and gerund of doust === Noun === dousting (countable and uncountable, plural doustings) (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."” (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.”