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▪ I. smutting, vbl. n.|ˈsmʌtɪŋ|
[f. smut v.]
1. The action of the verb in various senses, or the result of this.
1621Hakewill David's Vow 165 Slander..being..the smutting of a mans good name. a1661Fuller Worthies, Middlesex (1662) 189 A help hath been found out against the smooting of Wheat,..I say the smooting of Wheat which makes it a Negro, as Mildew makes it a Dwarfe. 1757tr. Henckel's Pyritologia 171 The smutting or blackness thence arising.
2. attrib., in terms relating to the cleaning of grain from smut, as smutting device, smutting machine, smutting room.
1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 431/2 The screening or smutting machine. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2228/1 The outer shell of the conical smutting-device. 1892Daily News 14 Jan. 3/2 The mills consisted of five blocks used as mills, warehouses, smutting rooms, store rooms, and engine and boiler house.
▪ II. ˈsmutting, ppl. a.
[f. smut v.]
1. Making black or gloomy.
1626B. Jonson Staple of N. i. vi, This is better farre, then to weare Cypresse, Dull smutting gloues, or melancholy blacks.
2. Of fish: Rising at, or feeding on, smuts.
189919th Cent. Jan. 122 There is the ‘smutting’ fish [trout], greedily taking down the tiniest of insects. |