DCHP-3

bar ((n.))†

Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a ridge of sand or gravel above the surface or along the shore of a stream in which gold has been found.

Quotations

1859
One of us . . . went down and took up the first unoccupied claims at the lower end of the bar. . . .
1958
. . . the miners and Governor Douglas . . . together with the Indians and renegade whites at Yale and some of the bars, did not live together in love and sweetness.
2n.

(often in place names) a gold-mining camp on or near a productive bar.

Quotations

1858
Let miners be allowed to make their own bye-laws and regulations for each bar or district, subject to the approbation of a council of miners.
1958
When the word got to Hill's Bar, where the community spirit was strong, there was a great to-do.