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high-grader†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who steals or traffics in high-grade ore from a mine.
See: high-grade ((1)) ((v.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1953
. . . when the police raided the basement of the post office on a hot tip that high-graders were using it as a smelter, the lining of the furnace assayed at $18,000 per ton.
1963
At the time, the heat was supposed to be on Timmins' high-graders, the men who steal, refine and sell gold from the local mines.