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doust
English
Noun
doust (uncountable)
- (obsolete, West Country) Dust.
Verb
doust (third-person singular simple present dousts, present participle dousting, simple past and past participle dousted)
- (obsolete, West Country) To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
- Anonymous (1831) The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend?[1]:
- [...] 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")
- Fussel, E.F. (1867) Medical Times and Gazette, page 420: “"[...] 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."”
- Havergal, Francis Tebbs (1887) Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county: “"Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him."”
- Clynton, Richard (1889) The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer: “Look at me, mates! The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.”
- Anonymous (1831) The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend?[1]:
- (obsolete, West Country) To dust.
- (obsolete, mining, chiefly Cornwall) 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, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.”
Anagrams
- USDOT, douts
Middle English
Noun
doust (uncountable)
- Alternative form of dust
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roust
English
Etymology
1650s, variant of rouse, possibly influenced by rout.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?st/
Verb
roust (third-person singular simple present rousts, present participle rousting, simple past and past participle rousted)
- (transitive) to rout out of bed; to rouse
- To harass, to treat in a rough way.
- (transitive, slang) to arrest
- (transitive) to drive strongly
Synonyms
- (rout out of bed): bring round, knock up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
- (arrest): collar, nick, pinch
Translations
Noun
roust (plural rousts)
- A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
Synonyms
- roost, rost
References
Anagrams
- Rusto, Stour, Tours, routs, stour, sutor, torus, tours
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