Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any metal-bearing rock rich enough to pay for working.
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Examples
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Being personally very much occupied with his own stamp mill, and the percentage of the pay-rock, he was just as pleased that no local burden should be placed across the apex of his spinal pillar.
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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He alleged, further, that stocks and bonds were but shadows of wealth, that the old mines might any day become exhausted, and that security for the future lay only in having one member of the family, at least, looking up new pay-rock against the ever possible time of adversity.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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a fine site for a mill; and when we strike the ledge, you know, we'll have a mill-site, water power, and pay-rock, all handy.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Mark Twain 1872
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a fine site for a mill; and when we strike the ledge, you know, we'll have a mill-site, water power, and pay-rock, all handy.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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"'That-like flummery food's no kind of diet to be trackin' up pay-rock on, 'I says to kind of cheer myself.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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