snickers

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One after another the fossickers took off their hats and entered, stooping through the low door.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

Behind these came the great army of fossickers, washers of surface-dirt, equipped with knives and tin-dishes, and content if they could wash out half-a-pennyweight to the dish.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

Hastening back to the camp, he reached there just as the last of the fossickers, moving away from the fire, gave rise to Gleeson's remark.

From Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush by Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

The treatment he had received at the hands of the fossickers had not improved his temper, and there was trouble enough ahead from the others without having it in his own camp.

From Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush by Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

The "Welcome Stranger," a still larger mass of gold, was found amongst the roots of a tree at Dunolly, Victoria, in 1869, by two starved out "fossickers" named Deeson and Oates.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)