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(obsolete, West Country) Dust.

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1867, Fussel, E.F., 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."
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1887, Havergal, Francis Tebbs, Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county.
"Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him."
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1889, Clynton, Richard, 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.
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