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gophering
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the digging of small mines; prospecting and digging.
Quotations
1944
[gophering. Digging for something. I once heard a cowman characterize a certain old prospector by saying he'd "been gophering in them hills as far back as an Injun could remember."]
1958
The mining fields in Canada were painfully restricted at that time to Eastern Ontario, Kenora, Sudbury and some gophering in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.