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What does fossick mean?

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Verb
  1. (Britain) To ferret out; to elicit information.
  2. (Britain, Australia) To search for gold, gems, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.
  3. (Britain, Australia) To search for something; to rummage.
  4. (intransitive) To be troublesome.
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What saves this from being little more than a previously roped-off plot in which scholars and students can now fossick excitedly is that one of the elements that Beckett could never resist was humour.
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.
What Mr. Wake, Mr. fossick, Mr. Fyle, who had all been out the day before?
Major Davis plays the violin a little, and we are going to fossick others out.
He began to fossick again, shifting the bars of soap around until he became aware of something moving behind him.
Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.

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