Scouring
['skaʊrɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) moving over territory to search for something; 'scouring the entire area revealed nothing'.
Checker: Nicole--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scour
Edited by Angelina
Examples
- He and Dobbin stumbled over their pails in the passages as they were scouring the decks of the Royal George. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am myself a born and bred lady through it all, even though it comes to scouring a floor, or washing dishes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His ideas are not clean, Mr. Moore; they want scouring with soft soap and fuller's earth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They are then finished by scouring and rubbing over with olive oil and turpentine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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