tossing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
tossing
- present participle and gerund of toss
Noun[edit]
tossing (plural tossings)
- The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 48, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft.
- (mining) The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
- 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining […] :
- If it is necessary buddle the Tin over again , after it is sifted ( which is the best method for cleansing most sorts of Tin , for there may lie a rough waste , that will not come off by tossing and packing ) then buddle it over again
- A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
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Adjective[edit]
tossing (not comparable)
- (vulgar, colloquial) Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
- I can't get this tossing program to work.