Definition of shicer in English:

1A worthless thing or person, especially a swindler.

1. 1.1Mining An unproductive claim or mine.
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   • The unsuccessful diggers would declare their holes blanks, duffers, or shicers, and dedicate them to the Queen.
   • To keep friends with such a cast of mind, whose motto is Nelson's, you must do your duty; never mind if you sink a shicer, bottom your shaft any how.
   • I think the practical miner, who had been hard at work night and day, for the last four or six months, and, after all, had just bottomed a shicer, objected to the tax itself, because he could not possibly afford to pay it.