Meanings of scouring (scourings) in inglês

Near the bridge, on the rocks is plain evidence of glacial scourings.

Many people consider that scourings supplementary to these are only due to habit.

And out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made.

My clinic recommends weekly scourings with a nonabrasive cleaner.

They were generally commanded by ruffians, and manned with desperadoes of all nations-thescourings of the French galleys.

Therefore it is best only to let the public mind have the scourings, as it were, of one's existence.

The people for the most part were half drunk-theywere the scourings from the low taverns in the Southwark Mint.

She carefully measured out half a pint of the unsavory fluid-thedregs of the casks and the scourings of the ledge.

So when the cream is off, the rest of the clergy are plainly but skim milk, the scourings of the seminaries.

Most of the gilding was worn off by the frequent scourings which it had undergone, beneath the hands of a black slave.

Scores of other rivulets on either side were pouring their off-scourings into the vexed river, each precisely as gracefully described in the lines:

Undeterred, they pivoted and began scouring the area for a new objective.

Just think, I've been scouring the bells ever since early this morning.

Explorers have spent days scouring the mountain top for possible alternative openings.

Police are scouring east end Montreal, questioning everyone who knew the victim.

Other companies are now surely scouring their proxy statements for similar transgressions.