gobbing

gobbing

1. present participle and gerund of gob

gobbing (plural gobbings)

1. (mining) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.
   • 1850, John Phillips, Report on the Ventilation of Mines and Collieries:

     This objection , however , applies still more to the case of a road which has solid on one side , and gobbing on the other.

2. The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

• “gobbing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.