| 单词 | nugget-hunter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnugget-hunter General attributive or objective (in sense 3a), as nugget-gold, nugget-hunter, nugget-hunting, etc. ΚΠ 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 30 You dig him out as he lies nugget-fashion in the mountain-stream. 1880 G. Sutherland Tales of Goldfields 80 That [occupation] which gold miners call nugget-hunting... To the nugget-hunter [etc.]. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 9 Those fingers of yours are too sticky for nugget-testing in the dark. 1906 T. Watts-Dunton Last Walk from Boar's Hill in Coming of Love ii. 277 We walk through flowery ways From Boar's Hill down to Oxford, fain to know What nugget-gold, in drift of Time's long flow, The Bodleian mine hath stored from richer days. 1982 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 48 375 Nugget-finding is a chancy business, for the amount of gold found as nuggets is proportionally small relative to the overall amount of gold present. < as lemmas |
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