And at last our businesses being most spent, we into Mrs. Mercer's, and there mighty merry, Smutting one another with candle grease and soot, till most of us were like devils.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
"Its mighty uncertain how long he will tarry; for lie-yers live by talking; turning of words upside down, and wrong side outards, and reading words backards, and whitewashing black things, and Smutting of white ones.
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson
The story above the basement held the millstones and the "Smutting" machine, for cleaning dirty wheat.
"Jan of the Windmill"
Juliana Horatia Ewing