The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powdering \Pow"der*ing\, a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub.
A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted.
A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Powder \Pow"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Powdered; p. pr. & vb. n. Powdering.] [F. poudrer.]
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
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To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.
--Milton. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. A patch or application of powder. vb. (present participle of powder English)
Usage examples of "powdering".
After powdering as finely as possible, the coarse particles are sifted off and weighed.
They show that having passed through such a sieve is no proof of sufficient powdering, not that all ores powdered and so sifted are unfit for assaying.
Also it is evident that so much depends on the manner of powdering that nothing precise can be stated as to the average coarseness of the powder.