Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as wash dirt.

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Examples

  • I inquired of many if they had encountered the metal in its matrix, but in every instance they said they had not; but that the gold was invariably mixed with wash-gravel, or lodged in the crevices of other rocks.

    What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

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