different between dusking vs dusting

English

dusking

dusting

dusting (plural dustings)

A light snowfall.
A light covering of something.
The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.
- 1908, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero
  Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.
(colloquial) A beating.
A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dust-bathing.

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