outscouring
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
outscouring (plural outscourings)
- That which is scoured out or washed out.
- 1823, William Buckland, Reliquiae Diluvianae:
- the outscourings of these valleys form the gravel in which such bones are for the most part embedded
References edit
- “outscouring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.