skimpingsn.
Mining.
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skimpings1778
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 222 The water is poured off from the surface of the Tin, and the light waste upon it is skimmed off and laid by itself, to be buddled over again by the name of the Skimpings.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 238 The Ore swims uppermost, and is skimmed off in the manner of Tin skimpings.
1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 577 If divided into three, the two upper portions were termed top and bottom skimpings.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Gloss. (ed. 2) 23 (Cornwall terms) Skimpings, skimmings of the light ores, &c., in the dressing process.
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