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▪ I. † toze, tose, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|təʊz|
Forms: 3–7 tose, 4–7 toose, 6 tooze (toese), 7–8 toase, (7 toaze), 6– toze.
[ME. tosen (a 1250 in compound to-tosen); not recorded in OE.; but the later forms toase, etc. indicate an OE. *tásian, f. verbal root tás-:—OTeut. tais-, whence also OE. tǽsan (:—*taisjan) to tease (q.v. for further relations).]
trans. To pull asunder; to separate or unravel the fibres of; to comb or card (wool, etc.); = tease v.1 1.
a1250[see to-tose s.v. to-2 1]. 1346Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 2 Item si fila deficiant in panno vel quod nimis distent quod textores appellant tosed. 1390Gower Conf. I. 17 And what Schep that is full of wulle Upon his back, thei toose and pulle, Whil ther is eny thing to pile. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 41 A good quantite of tow I-tosid. c1440Promp. Parv. 497/2 Toson wulle or other lyke [v.r. tosyn or tose wul], carpo. 1530Palsgr. 760/1, I toose wolle, or cotton, or suche lyke, je force de la laine, and je charpis de la laine. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. xiv. 305 What toozing wooll did meene. 1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 81 Many..may pick wool, and sow garments, or tose okam. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. v. (1668) 123 Toase it every lock by lock. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 155 Peeces of a junke or rope, chopped very small,..and after tozed all as oacombe. 1665Hooke Microgr. 42 The Internal parts..were..as it were, tos'd open like a Lock of Wool. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Mixing Colours, Wool..must be taken out and toas'd over-again: for the first Toasing was to make it receive the Colour or Die; but the second is to..make it fit for Spinning. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v. Tag, Snip the end off the tag, an' toze it well as the grace can get among it.
b. transf. To pull, pull about. (Cf. touse.)
14..Sir Beues 1952 + 2 (MS. M) That they were in the grene wose, And I shold hem well tose. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 206 For euerie crime, What toesed eares, like baited beares!
c. fig. To separate, search out; to analyse; to elicit, ‘tease out’.
c1450Cov. Myst. xlii. (1841) 401 The trewthe fful trewlye he wyl tose, And send ȝow to hevyn or helle. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 760 For that I insinuate, or [printed at] toaze from thee thy Businesse. 1633D. R[ogers] Treat. Sacram. ii. 44 Doe it more fully, toze your consciences. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide i. 8 The spurious expositions..upon the Scriptures in his tedious tozing of them.
Hence † tozed, tosed ppl. a., † ˈtozing vbl. n.; † ˈtozer, a comber or carder (of wool, etc.).
1346Tosed [see above]. c1440Promp. Parv. 497/2 Tosare, of wulle or other lyke, carptrix. Tosynge, of wulle or oþer thyngys, carptura. 14..Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 103 Charge it with the tosed flesshe. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 321/1 For euerie sacke of tosed wool, seuen marks. 1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 22 Dippe toosed Wooll herein. 1648Tozing [see c above]. 1725Toasing [see above].
▪ II. toze, v.2 Tin-mining.|təʊz|
Also 9 toas (erron. toss).
[Possibly the same word as prec.; but connexion of sense is not certain.
(The spelling toss seems due to a bad etymological guess (see quot. 1839) which has passed into dictionaries.)]
trans. To separate tin ore from the gangue or rough ore by stirring the slimes in a kieve, and allowing the heavier particles to settle.
1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 180 The coffer is then emptied the second time, the tin carried again to the keeve, there tozed, skimmed, and packed. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornw., etc. xv. 577 Another let the tin ore fall into it [sc. the water] by degrees at the side of the keeve, where it was tozed (tossed), or stirred by the other until the vat was almost full. 1882Jago Cornw. Gloss., Toas, or Toze, to shake or toss the wet tin to and fro in a kieve or vat, with water, to cleanse and dress it.
Hence ˈtozing vbl. n., the action of thus cleaning the ore; also in comb., as tozing-tub, the tub or kieve in which tin ore is tozed. Also ˈtozer: see quot. 1885; (also a Cornish surname).
[1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 179 The tin-ore is then sifted in a sieve purposely constructed, and if it needs must be sent to be buddled again, then returned to the keeve and worked as before with a shovel, which they call tozing the tin.] 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. II. 210 They are obliged to take another method to clean it, which is called turloobing, or tozing. Ibid. 212 The tozing operation. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1244 The rough is washed in buddles, and in tossing tubs. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2603/2 Tossing, or Tozing, the operation of agitating ore in a kieve; a tub in which it is rotated in water by a stirrer on a vertical axis. 1885Black's Guide to Cornw. (ed. 13) 54 Tozer, the man who tozes, stirs, or washes the crop-tin. |