DCHP-2
prospector † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 n.
a person who prospects for minerals.
- 1897 If you saw men shaking $50,000 drafts under the noses of ragged old prospectors and getting refused, you would know how different it is to what you think.
- 1954 I had looked in at his old cabin at the mouth of the Flat to pick up a gold pan and a prospector's pick I had left there in his care
2 n.
See cruiser (def. 1) 1942 quote.
See also: cruiser (def. 1)
- 1933 Lumber prospectors had ascended the Castor in canoes before the district had been surveyed.
- 1897 If you saw men shaking $50,000 drafts under the noses of ragged old prospectors and getting refused, you would know how different it is to what you think.