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grizzly
[< grizzle gray + -ly]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a large and, often, ferocious bear, Ursus horribilis, nowadays largely confined to the northern Rockies.
See: grizzly bear
Quotations
1854
I've seed a grizzly pull down as good a hoss as ever tracked a prairy, where the critter had got bothered in a thicket.
1963
We watched a huge grizzly root up the sod and tear a mound of solid rock to pieces to catch a groundsquirrel or a whistler.
2n.
the meat of the grizzly bear.
Quotations
1937
And we traded flour and sugar which he wanted for some dry old moose meat and a piece of tough, but delicious, frozen grizzly.
3a†n. — Placer Mining
See 1966 quote.
Quotations
1881
The boiler and force pumps are on a scow and the "grizzly" on a raft close by, and the whole aparatus can be easily floated from one part of the river to another.
1966
There are many different rigs . . . but perhaps the one that has best stood the test of time is the grizzly. It evolved from the old rocker, which the Chinese introduced to the Western world during the California gold rush.
3b†n. — Placer Mining
See grizzly head quote.
See: grizzly head
Quotations
1881
The dirt is shovelled into the dump box and water is poured on it, which washes it on the grizzley, and into and through the sluice box, the gold catching on the blanket as it passes through.
1963
A grizzly is a set of parallel steel bars or rails, or even poles, set in a 2- by 4-inch rack. . . .
4†n. — Hardrock Mining
a screening device, usually a grid, of steel bars on which ore or rock is broken by means of a sledge hammer.
Quotations
1955
GRIZZLY--a grating (usually steel rails) placed over the top of a chute or ore pass for the purpose of stopping the larger pieces of rock or ore.
1964
The grizzlyman breaks up rock by hammering on a steel grid known as a grizzly.
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