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tozing


  1  definition  found 
 
  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.