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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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Fossick for gold in Croydon in Queensland and canoe through Katherine Gorge in the Northern Territory.
Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
Paddle along the Byfield River in Byfield National Park and fossick for gems in the Sapphire Gemfields, the Southern Hemisphere's largest.
I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place.
Major Davis plays the violin a little, and we are going to fossick others out.
Deeper in the desert, you can fossick for opals in the quirky underground town of Coober Pedy or in the frontier town of Andamooka.

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