snipe

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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comb through old diggings for overlooked gold.

See: sniper(def. 1),sniping

Quotations

1909

I panned and I panned in the shiny sand, and I sniped on the river bar;/But I know, I know, that it's down below that the golden treasures are. . . .