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nounthe work of digging for gold. gold diggings, a region where digging or seeking for gold, especially by placer mining, is carried on. Origin of gold diggingFirst recorded in 1795–1805 Words nearby gold digginggold chloride, Gold Coast, goldcrest, goldcup, gold digger, gold digging, gold disc, gold dust, golden, golden age, golden ager Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gold diggingAshley has attacked the legal side of gold-digging in the past, without naming names. Call Girls Out-Class Mistresses|Tracy Quan|December 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST "Say, but this gold-digging is darned hard work," and he grinned down at the two boys. The Cave of Gold|Everett McNeil When the goldfields were discovered, I turned to gold-digging; and between that and bullock-driving I have spent all my time. Grif|B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon Trevor and I tried our hands at gold-digging for a fortnight, at the end of which time we had had quite enough of it. The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith|W.H.G. Kingston
While engaged in gold-digging, I have often been led to notice the influence of the mind over the physical system. Lost Lenore|Charles Beach We talked about soil and grass, and gold-digging, and many other things which came back to one like a revelation as we yarned. While the Billy Boils|Henry Lawson
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