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Comstock U.S.|ˈkɒmstɒk|
[f. the name of H. T. P. Comstock (1820–70), American prospector who first worked a claim on the site of the Comstock lode.]
In full, Comstock lode: a very rich lode of silver and gold discovered in Nevada in 1859; hence, allusively, a rich mine or ‘find’.
1866Beadle's Monthly Aug. 102/1 The Comstock Lode proved the richest vein of silver ever found. 1867Terr. Enterprise (Virginia, Nev.) 2 Feb. 3/1 The real out and out Washoe miner can be found away down in the bowels of the Comstock. 1885Wkly. N. Mex. Rev. 18 June 2/6 The Old Mine of Grant county is proving a genuine Comstock. 1948Manch. Guardian Weekly 9 Dec. 9 The committee sank their pick in a farmyard and struck their Comstock lode in the shape of a hollowed-out pumpkin. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 196 The people who had come to exploit this Comstock Lode of the miraculous, found themselves painfully frustrated. |