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What does fossick mean?

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Verb
  1. (Britain) To ferret out; to elicit information.
  2. (Britain, Australia) To search for gold, gems, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.
  3. (Britain, Australia) To search for something; to rummage.
  4. (intransitive) To be troublesome.
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Major Davis plays the violin a little, and we are going to fossick others out.
What saves this from being little more than a previously roped-off plot in which scholars and students can now fossick excitedly is that one of the elements that Beckett could never resist was humour.
Fossick for gems in Mt Surprise before heading into the old gold centre of Georgetown.
Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
What Mr. Wake, Mr. fossick, Mr. Fyle, who had all been out the day before?
Fossick for gold in Croydon in Queensland and canoe through Katherine Gorge in the Northern Territory.

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