| doust Apr 3rd 2012, 19:26 obsolete, not archaic | ← Older revision | Revision as of 19:26, 3 April 2012 | | Line 4: | Line 4: | | | {{en-noun|-}} | | {{en-noun|-}} | | | | | | | − | # {{archaic|West Country}} [[dust|Dust]]. | + | # {{obsolete|West Country}} [[dust|Dust]]. | | | | | | | | ===Verb=== | | ===Verb=== | | | {{en-verb}} | | {{en-verb}} | | | | | | | − | # {{archaic|West Country}} To [[put out]], to [[destroy]], to [[kill]]. | + | # {{obsolete|West Country}} To [[put out]], to [[destroy]], to [[kill]]. | | | #*{{cite-book|year=1831|author=Anonymous|url=http://books.google.de/books?id=a3FIAAAAYAAJ&vq=shame!&hl=de&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend|passage=[...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed ''forty thousand per year''" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and ''has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever --'' (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "'''doust''' the liars")}} | | #*{{cite-book|year=1831|author=Anonymous|url=http://books.google.de/books?id=a3FIAAAAYAAJ&vq=shame!&hl=de&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend|passage=[...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed ''forty thousand per year''" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and ''has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever --'' (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "'''doust''' the liars")}} | | | #*{{cite-book|year=1867|author=Fussel, E.F.|title=Medical Times and Gazette|page=420|passage="[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- "I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon '''dousted''' it."}} | | #*{{cite-book|year=1867|author=Fussel, E.F.|title=Medical Times and Gazette|page=420|passage="[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- "I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon '''dousted''' it."}} | | | #*{{cite-book|year=1887|author=Havergal, Francis Tebbs|title=Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county|passage="Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly '''dousted''' him."}} | | #*{{cite-book|year=1887|author=Havergal, Francis Tebbs|title=Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county|passage="Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly '''dousted''' him."}} | | | #*{{cite-book|year=1889|title=The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer|author=Clynton, Richard|passage=Look at me, mates! The [[glim]] of one of my skylights is '''dousted''', and is battened down for ever.}} | | #*{{cite-book|year=1889|title=The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer|author=Clynton, Richard|passage=Look at me, mates! The [[glim]] of one of my skylights is '''dousted''', and is battened down for ever.}} | | − | # {{archaic|West Country}} To [[dust]]. | + | # {{obsolete|West Country}} To [[dust]]. | | − | # {{archaic|mining|chiefly|Cornish}} To separate dust from ore. | + | # {{obsolete|mining|chiefly|Cornish}} To separate dust from ore. | | | #*{{cite-book|year=1895|author=Lock, Charles George Warnford|title=Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant|passage=The ore is first cobbed and classed into (a) prile, (b) best dredge, and (c) crusher dredge; ''a'' is finished product; ''c'' is crushed, jigged, and huddled; ''b'' is '''dousted''', or, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.}} | | #*{{cite-book|year=1895|author=Lock, Charles George Warnford|title=Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant|passage=The ore is first cobbed and classed into (a) prile, (b) best dredge, and (c) crusher dredge; ''a'' is finished product; ''c'' is crushed, jigged, and huddled; ''b'' is '''dousted''', or, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.}} | | |
