gobbing
English
Verb
gobbing
- present participle of gob
Noun
gobbing (plural gobbings)
- (mining) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gobbing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)