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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 gems in Mt Surprise before heading into the old gold centre of Georgetown.
Paddle along the Byfield River in Byfield National Park and fossick for gems in the Sapphire Gemfields, the Southern Hemisphere's largest.
Fossick for gold in Croydon in Queensland and canoe through Katherine Gorge in the Northern Territory.
He began to fossick again, shifting the bars of soap around until he became aware of something moving behind him.
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.
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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