Lexicographical Neighbors of Gophering
Literary usage of Gophering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Breaking ground in gophering is generally i • irr-iißd; openings are rarely
timbered or filled. gophering sometimes follows ..."
2. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"We are sure that the gophering iron, thrust into a hollow holder, ... It was used
in England, and perhaps here, to heat the gophering iron on which ruffles ..."
3. The Coal and Metal Miners' Pocketbook of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables by Thomas J. Foster (1905)
"... or gophering.— Bodies of valuable material frequently occur that cannot be
mined by any regular system. These are recovered by simply following the ore ..."
4. After Earthquake and Fire: A Reprint of the Articles and Editorial Comment by Mining and scientific press (1906)
"The mining spirit and even tradition had, however, taken their departure, and
the husbandman gophering between seedtime and harvest in the surface workings ..."
5. Proceedings by Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society (1891)
"The mining has been on the plan of gophering and taking a few tons from a hole
and moving to another. Not always because the first was exhausted, ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*gophering Irons. For crimping linen [MCHB]. Gore. (i) Mire. ' Slush and gyre'
are generally mentioned together. The former expresses the thin, ..."
7. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... desert enthusiasm and the other one per cent just sufficient "color" to
tantalize the old-timers and keep them gophering away long after hope had fled, ..."
8. Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1907 by Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"Such a system of " gophering" might have to be entirely abandoned for the subsequent
economical development of hoisting and breaking down the ore. ..."
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