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dry diggings † Placer Mining 
gold claims away from the bed of a stream.
See also: bank diggings bar diggings
- 1858 These are in fact a species of dry diggings, but it is beyond doubt that the other kind of dry diggings exist plentifully in the north.
- 1897 "Dry diggings" shall mean any mine over which a river never extends.
- 1960 In "dry diggings" a claim shall be 250 feet square.
- 1858 These are in fact a species of dry diggings, but it is beyond doubt that the other kind of dry diggings exist plentifully in the north.