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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1†n. — Placer Mining
a profitable deposit or stratum of gold-bearing gravel.
Quotations
1860
[Many have already returned and their accounts are singularly consistent, viz., that " good diggings are scarce, " "paying streak thin," "provisions very high". . . .]
1898
On Fritz Miller's discovery claim it pays about $25 to the shovel, and as the center of the creek is reached the pay-streak increases in value.
1936
Early in February we struck the rich paystreak very nearly off the boundary of the claim!
1963
The gold concentration or paystreak may have been formed in pre-glacial, interglacial, or postglacial times, or paystreaks of all three period may lie in different parts and at different levels in a single valley.
2n. — Slang
See quote.
Quotations
1924
The only bacon the traders sell is of very inferior quality, generally "sow-belly," "pay-streak," etc.