gobbing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
gobbing
- present participle and gerund of gob
Noun[edit]
gobbing (plural gobbings)
- (mining) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.
- 1850, John Phillips, Report on the Ventilation of Mines and Collieries:
- This objection , however , applies still more to the case of a road which has solid on one side , and gobbing on the other.
- The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.
References[edit]
- “gobbing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.