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fossick

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 )

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fossick

fos sick |ˈfäsik ˈfɑsɪk | ▶verb [ no obj. ] Austral. /NZ informal rummage; search: he spent years fossicking through documents. • search for gold in abandoned workings. DERIVATIVES fos sick er |ˈfäsikər |noun ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (referring to mining ): probably from the English dialect sense ‘obtain by asking ’ (i.e., ‘ferret out ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

fossick

fossick |ˈfɒsɪk | ▶verb [ no obj. ] Austral. /NZ informal rummage; search: he spent years fossicking through documents. • search for gold in abandoned workings. DERIVATIVES fossicker noun ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (referring to mining ): probably from the English dialect sense ‘obtain by asking ’ (i.e. ‘ferret out ’).