placer-mine
verb
[with object] And without object) to wash (gravel, sand, etc.), in search of gold or other valuable minerals.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- polychroic
- polychromasia
- polychromatic
- polychromatic normoblast
- polychromatise
- polychromatism
- polychromatize
- polychromatophil
- polychromatophile
- polychromatophilia
- polychromatophilic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- polychromism
- polychromist
- stick in one's throat (or craw)
- stick insect
- stick-in-the-mud
- stick it to
- stickleback
- stickler
- sticklike
- stick-nest rat
- stick one (or it) on
- stick one's neck out