outscouring

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ scouring.

Noun

outscouring (plural outscourings)

  1. 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

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