DCHP-3

cow's tongue

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Cariboo

an oval, water-worn cobblestone, resembling a cow's tongue in shape, often found in numbers and forming a kind of pavement in a stream bed, believed by placer miners to indicate the probable presence of gold.

Quotations

1958
And many an old timer waits eagerly and tries desperately to be the one to startle the villages and towns with that ancient cry. "Cow's tongues and the bed-rock pitchin', get away girls, get away."
1963
Cow's tongues are the round, smooth boulders found along rivers and streams.