| 单词 | bank digging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbank digging C1. Australian, New Zealand, and U.S. Designating a place where gold-mining occurs in or on the bank of a river or stream as opposed to the bed, as bank claim, bank digging, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1851 Empire (Sydney) 7 Oct. 231/7 The bank or dry diggings are being worked in situations that excite astonishment in the visitor. 1856 Hutching's Calif. Mag. Nov. 199/2 The ‘bank’ diggings pay regularly very good wages. 1873 V. Pyke Story Wild Will Enderby (ed. 4) i. iv. 21 The Dunstan gold workings were of two kinds—technically known as ‘beach claims’ and ‘bank claims’. The latter were on the gravelly river-banks which the miners sluiced away bodily for..the golden grains therein deposited. 1900 J. F. Kitto Pract. Dredgeman's Man. 18 If you are working a bank claim it is important that you keep the hole or paddock wide. 1944 M. W. Peacock Dead Puppets Dance 22 I've only got a creek claim. If I had a bank claim—including the bank as well as the bed of the creek—I'd sink a shaft. < as lemmas |
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