[f. SMUT v.]
1. The action of the verb in various senses, or the result of this.
1621. Hakewill, David’s Vow, 165. Slander … being … the smutting of a mans good name.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Middlesex (1662), 189. A help hath been found out against the smooting of Wheat,… I say the smooting of Wheat which makes it a Negro, as Mildew makes it a Dwarfe.
1757. trans. Henckel’s Pyritologia, 171. The smutting or blackness thence arising.
2. attrib., in terms relating to the cleaning of grain from smut, as smutting device, machine, room.
1856. Morton, Cycl. Agric., II. 431/2. The screening or smutting machine.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2228/1. The outer shell of the conical smutting-device.
1892. Daily News, 14 Jan., 3/2. The mills consisted of five blocks used as mills, warehouses, smutting rooms, store rooms, and engine and boiler house.
