fossick
verb (used without object)
to undermine another's digging; search for waste gold in relinquished workings, washing places, etc.
fossicker
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a word derived from
fossick.
Example Sentences
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There was nothing left for him, Long Jim, to do, but to take his dish and turn fossicker; or even to aim no higher than washing over the tailings rejected by the fossicker.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
The boy was an ardent fossicker, and loved to be burrowing amongst old tailings, or groping in the sludge of an auriferous creek after little patches.
From The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy by Edward Dyson
The deck seemed to lurch, and the fossicker fell forward against the face of the drive.
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
That we worked with a will, the remark made to me by an old fossicker will go to show.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
We knew a fossicker whose cat used to bring him a bunny nearly every night.
From On the Track by Henry Lawson
