DCHP-3

prospector†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a person who prospects for minerals.

Quotations

1897
If you saw men shaking $50,000 drafts under the noses of ragged old prospectors and getting refused, you would know how different it is to what you think.
1954
I had looked in at his old cabin at the mouth of the Flat to pick up a gold pan and a prospector's pick I had left there in his care
2n.

See cruiser (def. 1) 1942 quote.

See: cruiser(def. 1)

Quotations

1933
Lumber prospectors had ascended the Castor in canoes before the district had been surveyed.