crevicingn.
/ˈkrɛvɪsɪŋ/ (See quots. and crevice n. 1b) Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > searching for gold, etc., in crevices
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1851 Alta California (San Francisco) 17 July 2/2 The early adventurers in the gold-diggings required simply..a strong sheath-knife for ‘crevicing’.
1875 J. Miller First Fam'lies Sierras ix. 68 A lot of picks and pans, and tom irons, and crevicing spoons, that lay up against the wall.
1886 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. 117 Crevicing—Collecting gold in the crevices of rock.
1888 C. D. Ferguson Exper. Forty-niner ix. 129 It was all crevicing, that is, working the crevices in the rocks.
1948 P. Johnston Lost & Living Cities Calif. Gold Rush 41/2 As crevicing was better up the fork, they broke camp, and moved to Zumwalt Flat.
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