DCHP-3

gravel puncher

Placer Mining, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a miner using primitive equipment.

Quotations

1951
Hard long work might have paid me a dollar a day, which was what the few remaining gravel punchers managed to gross on some of the better bars upriver.