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Definition of Fossicks
1. fossick [v] - See also: fossick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossicks
Literary usage of Fossicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Malay Sketches by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1903)
"If he is there at all he will be hard to see, for he pushes his little dugout
fifty or a hundred yards up a mud creek, leaves it and fossicks about, ..."
2. Malay Sketches by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1900)
"If he is there at all he will be hard to see, for he pushes his little dugout
fifty or a hundred yards up a mud creek, leaves it and fossicks about, ..."
3. Elizabeth Pease Nichol by Anna M. Stoddart (1899)
"... fossicks, and later, Foxes and Frys. Perhaps of all these, and many others,
the Feet- hams family held the least exclusive position so far as the ..."
4. Colonial facts and fictions by Mark Kershaw (1886)
"Where a Chinaman fossicks about for gold or tin, and only leaves behind him heaps
of debris, the colonist may rightly object; but when the Chinaman leaves ..."
5. The Country Month by Month by Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger (1902)
"His long bill is furnished with sensitive nerves that acquaint the bird exactly
as to the nature of the matters he comes in contact with, when he fossicks ..."
6. The Life of Napoleon, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary View of the by Walter Scott (1836)
"... and splendid drosses, to the soldiers on both sides; receiving the respectful
salutes of the Russian patrols, and the applause of the fossicks. ..."
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