fossick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To search for something; to rummage.

   “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.”

2. fiil To elicit information; to ferret out.

   “[T]he honorable member went to the Railway department, and fossicked about for information, and he found, forsooth, that there had been a little rise in the salary of a son of a member of the House.”

3. fiil To search for gems, gold, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.

   “The "fossicker" is one who wanders about old diggings, armed with a knife and pan, and who seldom sinks or drives, but "fossicks" or searches about the old heaps of dirt, or in the bottoms of deserted shafts and drives, keen-eyed after unobserved gold.”

4. fiil To be troublesome.