| 单词 | pork-knocking |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspork-knocking pork-knocking n. (in Guyana) the action of freelance prospecting or mining for gold or diamonds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > prospecting > types of prospecting for gold, diamonds, or opal stampede1846 river digging1850 pocket mining1872 potholing1885 sniping1897 Klondiking1900 specking1901 pork-knocking1965 1965 ‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest vii. 95 Winston, man, you better had go back to your pork-knocking. 1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xii. 221 We had some Brazilian natives with us... They..had come over for the diamond prospecting but, since the water had been too high for porknocking, they had agreed to work for us instead. < as lemmas |
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