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Definition of Fossickers
1. fossicker [n] - See also: fossicker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossickers
Literary usage of Fossickers
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)
"Little Bendigo—The Women there—Juvenile fossickers—Adventure with them—The
Eureka—Kangaroo Hunt over Digging-holes—Supper Fare in Mr. B r's Store—Dialogues ..."
2. Mines and Minerals of the British Empire: Being a Description of the by Ralph S. G. Stokes (1908)
"Chinese fossickers.—14. Government and taxation.—15. Disposal of tailings. 1.
THE eastern and western divisions of Tasmania differ very considerably in ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Steady old fossickers often get more Than the first who open'd the ground ...
4, 2: The fossickers sluiced and cradled i wonderful cradles of their own ding ..."
4. State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand by William Pember Reeves (1902)
"Most of the fossickers, of course, did not grow rich; but they made a living,
for a time at least, in a better way than by shovelling sand in Centennial ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1903)
"Occasionally fossickers are said to have obtained small parcels, the returns of
which are no doubt included in the statistics under the head of " Sundry ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1898)
"Occasionally fossickers are said to have obtained small parcels, the returns of
which are no doubt included in the statistics under the head of " Sundry ..."
7. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1903)
"... it is unlikely that there was then any mining in the district; though alluvial
gold appears to have been discovered by fossickers not long afterwards. ..."
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