gold-mining

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• Mining

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Mine>>. II. Mining ·vi The act or business of making mines or of working them....

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• Mining

  see Mines ...

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• Gold

  ·vt Money; riches; wealth. II. Gold ·noun ·Alt. of <<Goolde>>. III. Gold ·vt Figuratively, somethi...

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• Gold

  1) Heb. zahab, so called from its yellow colour (Ex. 25:11; 1 Chr. 28:18; 2 Chr. 3:5). 2) Heb. sego...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• gold

  – . The following words and phrases compoundedwith «gold» are Australian in use, though probably som...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Gold

  Gold was known from the very earliest times. (Genesis 2:11) It was at first used chiefly for ornamen...

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• quartz-mining

  See quartz. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Gold-beaten

  ·adj <<Gilded>>. ...

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• Gold-beating

  ·noun The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. ...

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• Gold-bound

  ·adj Encompassed with gold. ...

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• Gold-hammer

  ·noun The yellow-hammer. ...

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• Mannheim gold

  ·- A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zi...

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• Stream gold

  ·add. ·- Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold. ...

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• Beaten gold

  In Num. 8:4, means "turned" or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word "s...

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• Gold Square

  See Gould Square. ...

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• gold droppers

  Sharpers who drop a piece of gold, which they pick up in the presence of some unexperienced person, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• gold finder

  One whose employment is to empty necessary houses; called also a tom-turd-man, and night-man: the la...

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• grannum's gold

  Hoarded money: supposed to have belonged to the grandmother of the possessor. ...

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• gold-bearing

  verbal adj. auriferous. 1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13: «A new line of gold-bearing quartz...

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• gold-digging

  verbal n. mining or digging forgold. 1880. G. Sutherland, `Tales of Gold. fields,' p. 36: «There ...

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• gold-digger

  n. 1852. J. Bonwick [Title]: «Notes of a Gold-digger.» ...

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• gold-fever

  n. the desire to obtain gold bydigging. The word is more especially applied to the periodbetween 18...

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• gold-field

  n. district where mining for goldis carried on. 1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria, c. xv. p....

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• gold-founded

  part. adj. founded as the resultof the discovery of gold. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' ...

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• gold-hunter

  n. searcher after gold. 1852. G. S. Rutter [Title]: «Hints to Gold-hunters.» 1890. Rolf Boldrewoo...

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• gold-seeking

  adj. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xv. p. 150: «The great gold-seeking multitude had ...

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• wattle-gold

  n. poetic name for the blossomof the Wattle. 1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads, Dedn., p. 9: «In ...

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• gold-thread

  (Coptis trifolia.) A plant well known in medicine, valued for its stomachic and tonic properties. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• gold fish

  The trivial name of the Cyprinus auratus, one of the most superb of the finny tribe. It was original...

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• gold mohur

  A well known current coin in the East Indies, varying a little in value at each presidency, but aver...

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• Gold Cross Court

  See Golden Cross Court. ...

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• money and gold

  silver and gold. York. ...

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• Piece Of Gold

  The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as desi...

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• Gold and Silver Wiredrawers

  Incorporated 1623. ...

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• Gold Lion, Lombard Street

  House of F. Barnham called the "Gould Lion" in Lumbart Street, mentioned in his Will, 1624. Behind t...

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• Gold Street, Wood Street

  See Goldsmith Street. ...

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