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名詞

dousting (複数形 doustings)

1. (obsolete, West Country) A beating, a dusting.
   • 1880, Bottrell, William, Stories and Folklore of West Cornwall,

     "For they'll get a mayn dousting when ever they coam."

2. (obsolete, mining, chiefly Cornish) A process for separating the dust from ore.
   • 1895, Lock, Charles George Warnford, 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.