dousting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of doust

plural doustings

1. West CountrycountableobsoleteuncountableA beating, a dusting.

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

2. CornwallcountableobsoleteuncountablebusinessA 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.”