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Definition of Fossicked
1. fossick [v] - See also: fossick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossicked
Literary usage of Fossicked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1900)
"... N. 31° 20' W. ; and a surface observation which I took was N. 6° W. It has
been fossicked a good deal at surface without much return. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1887)
"Last year I made a little under ten thousand dollars in coarse gold, much of it
fossicked out in Australian fashion. I was too sad a man to be much raised ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"So we scraped and fossicked and found nothing. " You find no gold," remarked the
shareholder in the rear, with a grave and logical look, " because it has ..."
4. The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade: A Record of Voyages by William T. Wawn (1893)
"... look out," He wandered through plantations, and he fossicked through the cane,
With tales of dread atrocities still flitting through his brain. ..."
5. A Record of the Mines of South Australia by Henry Yorke Lyell Brown (1887)
"Here the claims were easily worked ; as a rule the earth and gravel were broken
up by the pick and then fossicked over with a knife. ..."
6. Incwadi Yami, Or, Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa by Josiah Wright Matthews, Eric Rosenthal (1887)
"... the place was abandoned, and the prospector tried or ''fossicked" elsewhere.
A digger would pitch upon what appeared to him to be a likely spot, when, ..."
7. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"I have fossicked* on their surface, examined their shafts,t crawled through their
drives,J and worked in their quartz tunnels, seeing little in common ..."
8. Advance Australia!: An Account of Eight Years' Work, Wandering, and by Harold Finch-Hatton (1885)
"They had all treated themselves to a wash in the creek, and everyone who could
had fossicked out a clean shirt and a flash- ..."
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