| 单词 | pile claim |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspile claim h. Australian and New Zealand. More fully pile claim. A rich mining claim. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1854 Illustr. Sydney News 28 Oct. 324/2 The writer states (with all the enthusiasm of a fortunate digger who has..discovered his pile) that himself and his party had been successful in striking the gutter. 1862 Otago Goldfields & Resources 21 In the one or two holes that have been sunk gold has been obtained... Waipori has no ‘pile claims’. 1885 G. Darrell Sunny South 23 I have to go back and prospect for a pile once more. 1992 D. Latham Golden Reefs (ed. 2) 120 Every quartz discovery was assumed to be the beginning of a ‘pile claim’. < as lemmas |
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