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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Fossick \Fos"sick\, v. i. [Dial. E. fossick, fossuck, a troublesome person, fussick to potter over one's work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fuss}.] 1. (Mining) To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim. [Australia] 2. To search about; to rummage. A man who has fossicked in nature's byways. --D. Macdonald. | |
