Hypertext Webster Gateway: "treloobing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tossing \Toss"ing\, n.
1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly;
a rolling and tumbling.

2. (Mining)
(a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent
agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter
or earhy particles; -- called also {tozing}, and
{treloobing}, in Cornwall. --Pryce.
(b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the
air while melted.


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