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Definition of Fossicker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossicker
Literary usage of Fossicker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"... System in California—Domestic Menage of Storekeepers—Commence my Researches
as a fossicker—Favourable Reception in that Character—Discover Quantities of ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"150: "The man was what they called a night fossicker, who slept, ordid nothing
during ... 612 : "A fossicker is to the miner as is the gleaner to the reaper ..."
3. Thirty Years in Tropical Australia by Gilbert White (1918)
"... news of friends and relatives, writes letters, gathers the children to teaching
and baptism, makes wills, takes charge of the fossicker's tiny packet of ..."
4. The Gold Mines of the World: Containing Concise and Pratical Advice for by James Herbert Curle (1899)
"The " fossicker " is truly at home in the Queensland bush ; many a time have I,
riding through the forest, come upon such ..."
5. Gold and Tin Dredging Practice by Harold Langford Lewis (1905)
"Some of it prospected at 2 dwts. per yard, but was too wet for the ordinary miner
or fossicker to handle. The bottom consisted of a soft Silurian ..."
6. A Rogue's Conscience by David Christie Murray (1899)
"What's a fossicker," asked James, " and what's his bargain ? " " A fossicker is
a man who wanders about in search for the precious metals, and the regular ..."
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