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doust¹

noun

  1. West Country, obsolete, uncountable Dust.

verb dousts · dousting · dousted

  1. West Country, obsolete To extinguish, to destroy, to kill. [...] 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
  2. West Country, obsolete To dust.
  3. Cornwall, obsolete To separate dust from ore. Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895), Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “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, afte

Doust²

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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@misc{doust_2026,
  title = {doust},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doust},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}