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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fos·sick /ˈfɑsɪk/
 (vi.)淘金,翻尋,採掘

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fos·sick v. i.
 1. Mining To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim. [Australia]
 2.  To search about; to rummage.
    A man who has fossicked in nature's byways.    --D. Macdonald.
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