dust

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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gold dust.

Quotations

1859

. . . the average yield of "dust" was no less than four ounces each man, equal to about sixty-four dollars (£l2 16s.), besides the nuggets.

1958

Here the miners . . . lost their hard-earned dust in gambling.