| 单词 | gold-diggings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgold-diggings a. A place where digging is carried on, an excavation; in plural (sometimes treated as a singular) applied to mines, and especially to the gold-fields of California and Australia. Also with prefixed word, as gold-diggings, river-diggings, surface-diggings, etc. dry- or wet-diggings (see quot. 1889). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > material thrown up in digging digginga1552 upcast1883 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > excavation pot1431 undermine1524 grave1526 digginga1552 undermining1572 groin1587 underbeiting1670 dene-hole1768 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation stream-work1586 opencast?a1650 lavatory1712 lavadero1717 coffin1778 whole working1842 open cut1848 dry- or wet-diggings1849 river diggings1850 placer digging1851 placer working1867 drift mine1882 strip mine1934 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 9 On the South side of Welleden..ys a goodly quarre of Stone, wher appere great Diggyns. 1653 Z. Bogan Medit. Mirth Christian Life 122 The earth..yields a smell wholesome to the digger in the diggings. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 206 The Wall..of one Foot thick, from the Bottom of the Digging, to the Level of the Ground above. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 40 At Norton, near Wulpit, King Henry VIII. was induced to dig for Gold. He was disappointed, but the Diggings are visible at this Day. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana 148 The mode of working the mines is exceedingly simple. The word diggings, by which they are known, very well designates the appearance of these places. 1823 S. H. Long Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 93 Near his house are the diggings so often mentioned in this region as objects of curiosity. 1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 22 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) II. 47 He has lately struck a lead... We are now, you observe, among his diggings. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 62 The diggings as they term the places where the lead is found..were about sixteen miles distant. 1849 Illustr. London News 17 Nov. 325/1 Letter from the Gold Diggings. 1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 138 The diggings are on a creek called Araluen Creek. 1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 120 The principal diggings near Haugtown were surface diggings, but, with the exception of river diggings, every kind of mining was seen in full force. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Wet-diggings and Dry-diggings are terms in gold districts, for mines near rivers or on the higher lands as the case may be. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vii. 175 It was a goldfield, and a diggings in faraway Australia. < as lemmas |
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