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Definition of Tozing
1. toze [v] - See also: toze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tozing
Literary usage of Tozing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining by David Christopher Davies (1886)
"... Buddies—Slime Pits—tozing—Machinery for Retreat- mcnt of Ores—Dressing Tin,
Copper, Silver, Gold—Methods pursued in Brazil and in Victoria. JIGGING. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"I saw him tozing down street." Trade (pron. tra-ade), a mean thing. Doctor's trade,
medicine. Sweet trade, sweetmeats. Spoken of with contempt. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"I saw him tozing down street." Trade (pron. tra-ade), a mean thing. Doctor's trade,
medicine. Sweet trade, sweetmeats. Spoken of with contempt. ..."
4. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"I saw him tozing down street." Trade (pron. tra-ade), a mean thing. Doctor's trade,
medicine. Sweet trade, sweetmeats. Spoken of with contempt. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"An iron bucket for raising ore. Kicker. Ground left in first cutting a vein, for
support of its sides. Kieve, CORX. A tub for tozing tin-ore. ..."
6. United States Mineral Lands: Laws Governing Their Occupancy and Disposal by Henry Norris Copp (1882)
"Tossing or tozing, CORN. I. Washing ores by violent agitation in water, their
subsidence being accelerated by packing or striking with a hammer the keeve in ..."
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