DCHP-3

moose pasture

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Slang

worthless or unproven mining claims.

See: moose-yard(def. 2)

Quotations

1896
. . . some miners, led on by a Mr. Whipple, started in to stake Eldorado branch, up to that time "Reserved as a moose pasture," as a wag put it. . . .
1909
"Moose pasture!" sneered Kink Mitchell. But Bill gravely paced off five hundred feet up the creek and blazed the corner-stakes.
1962
When prospecting lagged and the bottom fell out of the "moose-pasture" market, Ernie took a semi-skilled job with a local mining company. . . .
2 — North

terrain having little value except for browsing moose.

Quotations

1965
The timberland is interspersed with . . . willow-and-aldergrown "moose pasture."