smutting

The story above the basement held the millstones and the "smutting" machine, for cleaning dirty wheat.

Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

If I did, I would have them doing smutting things like this all the time.

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Day and days might elapse without his discerning the "dimple" of a big fish, or even the splash of a small one except, possibly, just at dusk; and then his skill and patience would be taxed heavily as ever by any smutting fish on a chalk stream.

Field & Stream Classics: December 1912 2003

Day and days might elapse without his discerning the "dimple" of a big fish, or even the splash of a small one except, possibly, just at dusk; and then his skill and patience would be taxed heavily as ever by any smutting fish on a chalk stream.

Field & Stream Classics: December 1912 2003

They say she say sometime, she didn't want no Negro man smutting her sheets up.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

I have always a piece of cold beef and a mince-pie upon the table, and am wonderfully pleased to see my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks, and smutting one another.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

I have always a piece of cold beef and a mince-pye upon the table, and am wonderfully pleased to see my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks, and smutting one another.

The Coverley Papers Various

It should seem also, that they sometimes heightened their black colour, by smutting their bodies; as a mark was left behind on any clean substance, such as white paper, when they handled it.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

I have always a piece of cold beef and a mince-pie upon the table, and am wonderfully pleased to see my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks, and smutting one another [158].

The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Joseph Addison 1695

And at last our businesses being most spent, we into Mrs. Mercer's, and there mighty merry, smutting one another with candle grease and soot, till most of us were like devils.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668