Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mining alone in a desultory way or in irregular openings and burrows like those made by the coyote.
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- verb Present participle of
coyote .
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Examples
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Pray forgive me, even though I confess that I intend, some day, when I feel statistically inclined, to bore you with some profound remarks upon the claiming, drifting, sluicing, ditching, fluming, and coyoting politics of the "diggins."
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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I'm never so happy as when gophering around in a barren prospect hole or coyoting on some rocky hillside.
The Long Chance 1918
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