See doust in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Fussel, E.F. (1867) Medical Times and Gazette, page 420: “\"[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- \"I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon dousted it.\"”"
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