Toss"ing, n.

1.

The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

2. Mining (a)

A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.

Pryce. (b)

A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

 

© Webster 1913.