TOSSING

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.


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